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HOFMANN, JOHANN See also:CHRISTIAN KONRAD VON (1810—1877) , Lutheran theologian and historian, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:December 1810 at See also:Nuremberg, and studied See also:theology and See also:history at the university of See also:Erlangen. In 1829 he went to See also:Berlin, where See also:Schleiermacher, See also:Hengstenberg, See also:Neander, See also:Ranke and See also:Raumer were among his teachers. In 1833 he received an See also:appointment to See also:teach See also:Hebrew and history in the gymnasium of Erlangen. In 1835 he became Repetent, in 1838 Privatdozent and in 1841 See also:professor extraordinarius in the theological See also:faculty at Erlangen. In 1842 he became professor ordinarius at See also:Rostock, but in 1845 returned once more to Erlangen as the successor of Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von See also:Harless (1806—1879), founder of the Zeitschrift far Protestantismus and Kirche, of which Hofmann became one of the editors in 1846, J. F. Hofling (1802—1853) and Gottfried See also:Thomasius (1802—1875) being his collaborators. He was a conservative in theology, but an enthusiastic adherent of the progressive party in politics, and sat as member for Erlangen and See also:Furth in the Bavarian second chamber from 1863 to 1868. He died on the loth of December 1877. He wrote See also:Die siebzig Jahre See also:des Jeremias u. die siebzig Jahrwochen des See also:Daniel (1836); Geschichte des Aufruhrs in den Cevennen (1837); Lehrbuch der Weltgeschichte See also:fur Gymnasien (1839), which became a See also:text-See also:book in the See also:Protestant gymnasia of See also:Bavaria; Weissagung u. Erfullungim See also:alten u. neuen Testamente (1841—1844; 2nd ed.,18J7—186o); DerSchriftbeweis (1852—1856; 2nd ed., 1857—186o) ; Die heilige Schrift des neuen Testaments zusammenhangend untersucht (1862—1875); Schutzschriften (1856—1859), in which he defends himself against the See also:charge of denying the See also:Atonement; and Theologische Ethik (1878). His most important See also:works are the five last named.

In theology, as in ecclesiastical polity, Hofmann was a Lutheran of an extreme type, although the strongly marked individuality of some of his opinions laid him open to repeated accusations of heterodoxy. He was the See also:

head of what has been called the Erlangen School, and " in his See also:day he was unquestionably the See also:chief See also:glory of the University of Erlangen " (Lichtenberger). See the articles in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; and cf. F. Lichtenberger, History of See also:German Theology in the Nineteenth See also:Century (1889) pp. 446-458.

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