Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus was a German rationalistic theologian who wrote
Das Leben Jesu als Grundlage einer reinen Geschichte des Urchristentums (The Life of Jesus as Basis of a Pure History of Early Christianity) in 1828, in which he argued that
Jesus of Nazareth survived being crucified. Other German theologians of the period, such as
Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher, held the same idea.