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HAHN, AUGUST (1792–1863)

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HAHN, See also:AUGUST (1792–1863) , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:March 1792 at Grossosterhausen near See also:Eisleben, and studied See also:theology at the university of See also:Leipzig. In 1819 he was nominated See also:professor extraordinarius of theology and pastor of Altstadt in See also:Konigsberg, and in 1820 received a superintendency in that See also:city. In 1822 he became professor ordinarius. In 1826 he removed as professor of theology to Leipzig, where, hitherto distinguished only as editor of Bardesanes, See also:Marcion (Marcion's Evangelium in seiner ursprunglichen Gestalt, 1823), and Ephraem Syrus, and the See also:joint editor of a Syrische Chrestomathie (1824), he came into See also:great prominence as the author of a See also:treatise, De rationalismi qui dicitur See also:vera See also:indole et qua cum naturalismo contineatur ratione (1827), and also of an Off ene Erklarung an See also:die Evangelische Kirche zunachst in Sachsen u. Preussen (1827), in which, as a member of the school of E. W. See also:Hengstenberg, he endeavoured to convince the rationalists that it was their See also:duty voluntarily and at once to withdraw from the See also:national See also:church. In 1833 Hahn's pamphlet against K. G. See also:Bretschneider (Uber die Lage See also:des Christenthums in unserer Zeit, 1832) having attracted the See also:notice of See also:Friedrich Wilhelm III.; he was called to See also:Breslau as theological professor and consistorial councillor, and in 1843 became " See also:general See also:superintendent " of See also:Ale See also:province of See also:Silesia. He died at Breslau on the 13th of May 1863. Though uncompromising in his " supra-See also:naturalism," he did not altogether satisfy the men of his own school by his own doctrinal See also:system.

The first edition of his Lehrbuch des christlichen Glaubens (1828) was freely characterized as lacking in consistency and as detracting from the strength of the old positions in many important points. Many of these defects, however, he is considered to have remedied in his second edition (1857). Among his other See also:

works are his edition of the See also:Hebrew See also:Bible (1833), his Bibliothek der Symbole and Glaubensregeln der apostolisch-katholischen Kirche (1842; 2nd ed. 1877) and Predigten (1852). His eldest son, HEINRICH AUGUST HAHN (1821-1861), after studying theology at Breslau and See also:Berlin, became successively Privatdozent at Breslau (1845), professor ad See also:interim (1846) at Konigsberg on the See also:death of Heinrich Havernick, professor extraordinarius (1851) and professor ordinarius (186o) at Greifswald. Amongst his published works were a commentary on the See also:Book of See also:Job (185o), a See also:translation of the See also:Song of Songs (1852), an exposition of See also:Isaiah xl.-lxvi. (1857) and a commentary on the Book of See also:Ecclesiastes (186o). See the articles in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.

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