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HAGENBACH, KARL RUDOLF (1801-1874)

HAGENBACH, KARL See also:
RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)
RUDOLF (1801-1874) , See also:

German See also:

church historian, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 4th of See also:

March 1801 at See also:

Basel, where his See also:

FATHER

father was a practising physician. His preliminary See also:

EDUCATION

education was received at a Pestalozzian school, and afterwards at the gymnasium, whence in due course he passed to the newly reorganized See also:

LOCAL

local university. He See also:

early devoted himself to theological studies and the service of the church, while at the same See also:

time cherishing and developing broad " humanistic " tendencies which found expression in many ways and especially in an enthusiastic admiration for the writings of See also:

HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON (1744-1803)

Herder. The years 1820-1823 were spent first at See also:

BONN

Bonn, where G. C. F. Lucke (1791-1855) exerted a powerful See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on his thought, and afterwards at See also:

Berlin, where See also:

SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST (1768-1834)

Schleiermacher and See also:

Neander became his masters. Returning in 1823 to Basel, where W. M. L. de Wette had recently been appointed to a theological See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair, he distinguished himself greatly by his trial-dissertation, Observationes hisloricohermeneulicae circa Origenis melhodum inter pretendae sacrae Scripturae; in 1824 he became See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extraordinarius, and in 1829 professor ordinarius of See also:

THEOLOGY

theology. Apart from his See also:

ACADEMIC

academic labours in connexion with the See also:

HISTORY

history of See also:

DOGMA (Gr. Sbypa, from b6aeiv, to seem; literally " that which seems, sc. good or true or useful " to any one)

dogma and of the church, he lived a See also:

LIFE

life of See also:

GREAT

great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen; and at his " See also:

JUBILEE (or JUBILE), YEAR OF

jubilee " in 1873, not only the university and See also:

TOWN

town of Basel but also the various churches of See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland See also:

UNITED

united to do him See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour. He died at Basel on the 7th of See also:

JUNE

June 1874.

Hagenbach was a voluminous author in many departments, but he is specially distinguished as a writer on church history. Though neither so learned and condensed as the contributions of See also:

GIESELER, JOHANN KARL LUDWIG (1792–1854)

Gieseler, nor so See also:

ORIGINAL

original and profound as those of Neander, his lectures are clear, attractive and See also:

FREE

free from narrow sectarian See also:

PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice. In dogmatics, while avowedly a See also:

CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of the " See also:

MEDIATION (Lat. medius, middle)

mediation theology " (Vermiltelungstheologie), based upon the fundamental conceptions of Herder and Schleiermacher, he was much less revolutionary than were many others of his school. He sought to maintain the old See also:

CONFESSIONAL (Late Lat. confessionale, neut. adj. from confessionalis, " pertaining to confession," Fr. confessional, Ital. confessionale)

confessional documents, and to make the See also:

OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective prevail over the purely subjective manner of viewing theological questions. But he himself was aware that in the endeavour to do so he was not always successful, and that his delineations of See also:

Christian dogma often betrayed a vacillating and uncertain See also:

hand. His See also:

WORKS

works include Tabellarische Ubersicht der Dogmengeschichle (1828) ; Encyclopa'See also:

die u. Methodologie der theol. Wissenschaften (1833) Vorlesungen 1Tber Wesen u. Geschichte der See also:

Reformation u. See also:

des Protestantismus (1834–1843); Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (184o–1841, 5th ed., 1867; See also:

ENGLISH

English transl., 185o) ; Vorlesungen caber die Geschichte der See also:

ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien Kirche (1853–1855) ; Vorlesungen fiber die Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters (186o–1861) ; Grundlinien der Homiletik u. Liturgik (1863); See also:

BIOGRAPHIES

biographies of Johannes See also:

OECOLAMPADIUS, JOHN (1482-1531)

Oecolampadius (1482–1564) and See also:

Oswald See also:

Myconius (1488–1552) and a Geschichte der theol. Schule Basels (186o); his Predigten (1858–1875), two volumes of poems entitled See also:

LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther u. See also:

seine Zeit (1838), and Gedichte (1846). The lectures on church history under the See also:

general See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Vorlesungen caber die Kirchengeschichte von der dltesten Zell bis zum rglen Jahrhundert were reissued in seven volumes (1868–1872).

See especially the See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article in See also:

Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

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