August Eduard Cunitz

August Eduard Cunitz (29 August 1812, in Strasbourg – 16 June 1886, in Strasbourg) was a French Protestant theologian.

August Eduard Cunitz

He studied at the University of Strasbourg, becoming a lecturer at the Protestant seminary in 1837. In 1857 he became an associate professor, followed by a full professorship in 1864. From 1872 onward, he held a similar position in the re-organized faculty of theology at the university.^[1]

Selected works

With Édouard Guillaume Eugène Reuss, he edited the Beiträge zu den theologischen Wissenschaften (6 volumes, 1847–55).^[1] With Reuss and Johann Wilhelm Baum, he edited the works of John Calvin, Ioannis Calvini Opera quae supersunt omnia (59 volumes, 1863–1900).^[2][3] Other written efforts by Cunitz include:

• De Nicolai II. decreto de electione pontificum Romanorum, 1837.
• Considerations historiques sur le développement du droit ecclésiastique protestant en France, 1840 – Historical considerations on the development of Protestant ecclesiastical law in France.
• Histoire ecclésiastique des églises réformées au royaume de France (with Johann Wilhelm Baum; 3 volumes, 1883–89) – Ecclesiastical history of Reformed churches in the Kingdom of France.
• Ein Katharisches Rituale, 1852 – A Cathar ritual.^[4]