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HARMS, CLAUS (1778-1855)

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HARMS, CLAUS (1778-1855) , See also:German divine, was See also:born at Fahrstedt in See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein on the 25th of May 1778, and in his youth worked in his See also:father's See also:mill. At the university of See also:Kiel he repudiated the prevailing See also:rationalism and under the See also:influence of See also:Schleiermacher became a fervent Evangelical preacher, first at Lunden (18o6), and then at Kiel (1816). His trenchant See also:style made him very popular, and he did See also:great service for his cause especially in 1817, when, on the 3ooth anniversary of the See also:Reformation, he published See also:side by side with See also:Luther's theses, ninety-five of his own, attacking See also:reason as " the See also:pope of our See also:time " who " dismisses See also:Christ from the See also:altar and throws See also:God's word from the See also:pulpit." He also had some fame as a hymn-writer, and besides volumes of sermons published a See also:good See also:book on Pastoraltheologie (1830). He resigned his pastorate on See also:account of See also:blindness in 1849, and died on the 1st of See also:February 1855• See Autobiography (2nd ed., Kiel, 1852); M. See also:Baumgarten, Ein Denkmal See also:fur C. Harms (See also:Brunswick, 1855).

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