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NEANDER, JOHANN See also:
AUGUST (originally Sextilis)
AUGUST WILHELM (1789-1850) , See also:

German theologian and See also:

church historian, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

GOTTINGEN

Gottingen on the 17th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1789. His See also:

FATHER

father, See also:

EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel Mendel, is said to have been a Jewish pedlar, but August adopted the name of Neander on his See also:

BAPTISM

baptism as a See also:

Christian. While still very See also:

young, he removed with his See also:

MOTHER

mother to See also:

HAMBURG

Hamburg. There, as throughout See also:

LIFE

life, the simplicity of his See also:

PERSONAL

personal See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance and the oddity of his See also:

MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners attracted See also:

NOTICE

notice, but still more, his See also:

GREAT

great See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and See also:

MENTAL

mental See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power. From the See also:

GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar-school (Johanneum) he passed to the gymnasium, where the study of See also:

PLATO

Plato appears especially to have engrossed him. Considerable See also:

INTEREST

interest attaches to his See also:

early companionship with Wilhelm See also:

Neumann and certain others, among whom were the writer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the poet Adelbert von See also:

CHAMISSO, ADELBERT VON [Louis CHARLES ADELAIDE DE] (1781–1838)

Chamisso. Baptized on the 25th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 18o6, in the same See also:

YEAR

year Neander went to See also:

Halle to study divinity. Here See also:

SCHLEIERMACHER, FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST (1768-1834)

Schleiermacher was then lecturing. Neander found in him the very impulse which he needed, while Schleiermacher found a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of thoroughly congenial feeling, and one destined to carry out his views in a higher and more effective Christian See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form than he himself was capable of imparting to them. But before the year had closed the events of the Franco-Prussian See also:

War compelled his removal t6 Gottingen. There he continued his studies with ardour, made himself yet more See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of Plato and See also:

Plutarch, and became especially advanced in See also:

THEOLOGY

theology under the See also:

VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)

venerable G. J.

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Planck (1751-1833). The impulse communicated by Schleiermacher was confirmed by Planck, and he seems now to have realized that the See also:

ORIGINAL

original investigation of Christian See also:

HISTORY

history was to form the great See also:

WORK

work of his life. Having finished his university course, he returned to Hamburg, and passed his examination for the Christian See also:

MINISTRY

ministry. After an See also:

INTERVAL

interval of about eighteen months, however, he definitively betook himself to an See also:

ACADEMIC

academic career, " habilitating " in See also:

HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, where two vacancies had occurred in the theological See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of the university. He entered upon his work here as a theological teacher in 1811; and in 1812 he became a See also:

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

professor. In the same year (1812) he first appeared as an author by the publication of his monograph Uber den Kaiser Julianus and sein Zeitalter. The fresh insight into the history of the church evinced by this work at once See also:

drew See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to its author, and even before he had terminated the first year of his academical labours at Heidelberg, he was called to See also:

Berlin, where he was appointed professor of theology. In the year following his See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment he published a second monograph Der Heilige Bernhard and sein Zeitalter (Berlin, '813), and then in 1818 his work on See also:

GNOSTICISM (Gr. yvwvcs, knowledge)

Gnosticism (Genetische Entwickelung der vornehmsten gnastischen Systeme). A still more extended an elaborate monograph than either of the preceding followed in 1822, Der Heilige Johannes Chrysostomus and See also:

die Kirche, besonders See also:

DES

des Orients in dessen Zeitalter, and again, in 1824, another on See also:

TERTULLIAN (c. 155-c. 222)

Tertullian (Antignostikus). He had in the meantime, however, begun his great work, to which these several efforts were only preparatory studies. The first See also:

VOLUME

volume of his Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen See also:

Religion and Kirche embracing the history of the first three centuries, made its appearance in 1825. The others followed at intervals—the fifth, which appeared in 1842, bringing down the narrative to the pontificate of Bcniface VIII.

A See also:

POSTHUMOUS

posthumous volume, edited by C. F. T. See also:

Schneider in 1852, carried it on to the See also:

period of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

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