CASSEL, PAULUS STEPHANUS

(1821-92)

   German theologian and historian. After he converted to Christianity in 1855, he was librarian at the Royal Erfurt Library, and was elected as a conservative member to the Prussian Landtag. From 1868 to 1891 he served as a researcher at the Christuskirche in Berlin and as a missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews. His publications include an account of Jewish history based on non-Jewish sources, and studies of the books of Judges, Ruth and Esther, as well as the Targum Sheni to Esther.