Wellhausen, Julius, Old Testament scholar, born at Hameln; held the post of professor of Theology at Greifswald, but resigned the post from conscientious scruples and became professor of Oriental Languages at Marburg in 1885; is best known among us as a biblical critic on the lines of the so-called higher criticism, the criticism which seeks to arrange the different parts of the Bible in their proper historical connection and order; b. 1844.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wellesley, Richard Cowley, Marquis of * Wellingborough