Yet he became the most influential professor in the university. His program was set forth in Die Theologie der Thatsachen wider die Theologie der Rhetorik (1856), and four times, in the spirit of practical religion there propounded, he conducted his theological pupils through a three-years´ course which covered the entire Bible.
He rose to become the most influential professor at the university. His teaching program was outlined in "The Theology of Things Against the Theology of Rhetoric" (1856), and he conducted four courses for theological students, covering the entire Bible, in a spirit of practical religion.