PAULUS, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob, a learned German divine, was born at Leonberg in Württemberg in 1761. The chief part of his attention during his educational course was directed to theology. He studied the oriental languages and the other branches of a divinity course at Tübingen and Göttingen, and then proceeding to England, completed his education at London and Oxford. On his return to his native country, Paulus entered upon a distinguished professorial and literary career. In 1789 he was appointed to the chair of oriental languages at Jena; in 1804 he became professor of theology at Würzburg, and in 1811 he began to teach exegesis and philosophy at the university of Heidelberg. At the same time, his pen was busily employed in theological literature. Among other works, he published Philologisch-kritischer Commentar über das Neue Testament, in 2 vols., Lübeck, 1800-5; Das Leben Jesu, in 2 vols., Heidelberg, 1828; and Exegetisches Handbuch über die drei ersten Evangelien, in 3 vols., Heidelberg, 1830-33. The death of Dr Paulus took place at Heidelberg in 1851.