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GIESELER, JOHANN KARL LUDWIG (1792–1854)

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GIESELER, JOHANN KARL See also:LUDWIG (1792–1854) , See also:German writer on See also:church See also:history, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:March 1792 at Petershagen, near See also:Minden, where his See also:father, Georg Christof See also:Friedrich, was preacher. In his tenth See also:year he entered the orphanage at See also:Halle, whence he duly passed to the university, his studies being interrupted, however, from See also:October 1813 till the See also:peace of 1815 by a See also:period of military service, during which he was enrolled as a volunteer in a See also:regiment of chasseurs. On the conclusion of peace (1815) he returned to Halle, and, having in 1817 taken his degree in See also:philosophy, he in the same year became assistant See also:head See also:master (Conrector) in the Minden gymnasium, and in 1818 was appointed director of the gymnasium at See also:Cleves. Here he published his earliest See also:work (Historischkritischer Versuch fiber See also:die Entstehung u. die friihesten Schicksale der schriftlichen Evangelien), a See also:treatise which had considerable See also:influence on subsequent investigations as to the origin of the gospels. In 1819 Gieseler was appointed a See also:professor ordinarius in See also:theology in the newly founded university of See also:Bonn, where, besides lecturing on church history, he made important contributions to the literature of that subject in See also:Ernst Rosenmuller's Repertorium, K. F. Staudlin and H. G. Tschirner's Archiv, and in various university " programs." The first See also:part of the first See also:volume of his well-known Church History appeared in 1824. In-1831 he accepted a See also:call to See also:Gottingen as successor to J. G. See also:Planck.

He lectured on church history, the history of See also:

dogma, and dogmatic theology. In 1837 he was appointed a Consistorialrath, and shortly afterwards was created a See also:knight of the Guelphic See also:order. He died on the 8th of See also:July 1854. The See also:fourth and fifth volumes of the Kirchengeschichte, embracing the period subsequent to 1814, were published posthumously in 1855 by E. R. Redepenning (1810–1883); and they were followed in 1856 by a Dogmengeschichte, which is sometimes reckoned as the See also:sixth volume of the Church History. Among church historians Gieseler continues to hold a high See also:place. Less vivid and picturesque in See also:style than Karl See also:Hase, conspicuously deficient in See also:Neander's deep and sympathetic insight into the more spiritual forces by which church See also:life is pervaded, he excels these and all other contemporaries in the fulness and accuracy of his See also:information. His Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte, with its copious references to See also:original authorities, is of See also:great value to the student: " Gieseler wished that each See also:age should speak for itself, since only by this means can the peculiarity of its ideas be fully appreciated " (See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p. 284). The work, which has passed through several See also:editions in See also:Germany, has partially appeared also in two See also:English See also:translations. That published in New See also:York (See also:Text See also:Book of Ecclesiastical History, 5 vols.) brings the work down to the peace of See also:Westphalia, while that published in " See also:Clark's Theological Library " (Compendium of Ecclesiastical History, See also:Edinburgh, 5 vols.) closes with the beginning of the See also:Reformation.

Gieseler was not only a devoted student but also an energetic See also:

man of business. He frequently held the See also:office of See also:pro-See also:rector of the university, and did much useful work as a member of several of its committees.

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