RESCH, resh, ALFRED: German Lutheran; b. at Greiz (49 m. s. of Leipsic) Apr. 21, 1835. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic (1853-56) and Erlangen (1856-57), after which he was successively first teacher of religion and instructor in ancient languages at the Lutheran gymnasium at Wiborg, Finland (1857-59), a teacher at the Bürgerschule in Greiz (1860-61), and head teacher at the normal school in the same city (1861-63). From 1863 to 1900 he was first pastor and school-inspector at Zeulenroda, but since 1900 has lived in retirement, first in Jena and, since 1902, in Klosterlausnitz, near Jena, in Saxe-Altenburg. In theology he is a conservative and orthodox member of his denomination. He has written the following works on theological subjects: Die lutherische Rechtfertigungslehre dargestellt und gegen ihre neueste Verfälschung verteidigt (Berlin, 1868); Melodienbuch zu dem Landesgesangbuch der preussischen Landeskirche (Zeulenroda, 1875); Das Formalprinzip des Protestantismus, neue Prolegomena zu einer evangelischen Dogmatik (Berlin, 1876); Agrapha, aussercanonische Evangelienfragmente (Leipsic, 1889; 2d ed., 1906); Aussercanonische Paralleltexte zu den Evangelien (5 vols., 1893-97); Die Logia Jesu nach dem griechischen und hebräischen Text wiederhergestellt (1898); Das lutherische Einigungswerk (Gotha, 1902); Der Paulinismus und die Logia Jesu in ihrem gegenseitigen Verhältnisse untersucht (Leipsic, 1904) ; and Das lutherische Abendmahl (1908).