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SCHUMACHER, HEINRICH See also:CHRISTIAN (1780-1850) , See also:German astronomer, was See also:born at Bramstedt in See also:Holstein on the 3rd of See also:September 1780. He was director of the See also:Mannheim See also:observatory from 1813 to 1815, and then became See also:professor of See also:astronomy in See also:Copenhagen. From 1817 he directed the triangulation of Holstein, to which a few years later was added a See also:complete See also:geodetic survey of See also:Denmark (finished after his See also:death). For the See also:sake of the survey an observatory was established at See also:Altona, and Schumacher resided there permanently, chiefly occupied with the publication of Ephemerides (II parts, 1822-1832) and of the See also:journal Astronomische Nachrichten, of which he edited See also:thirty-one volumes. He died at Altona on the 28th of See also:December 185o. His son, See also:RICHARD SCHUMACHER (1827-1902), was his assistant from 1844 to 1850 at the. conservatory at Altona. Having become assistant to See also:Carlos Guillelmo Moesta (1825-1884), director of the observatory at See also:Santiago, in 1859, he was associated with the Chilean geodetic survey in 1864. Returning in 1869, he was appointed assistant astronomer at Altona in 1873, and In his See also:work on the See also:doctrine of the Divinity of See also:Christ (See also:Die Lehre von der Gottheit Christi, 1881) he follows the method of See also:Ritschl, and contends that the deity of Christ ought to be understood as the expression of the experience of the Christian community. In his own See also:person and work Christ represents to the community a See also:personal See also:revelation of See also:God. Faith in the divinity of Christ does not See also:rest upon a See also:miracle in nature, but upon a miracle in the moral See also:world. See also:Schultz's other See also:works include: Die Stellung See also:des christl. Glaubens zur heiligen Schrift (1876; and ed., 1877), Lehre vom heiligen Abendmahl (1886) ; Grundriss der evang.

Dogmatek (189o; and ed., 1892), Grundriss der evang. Ethik (2nd ed., 1897), and Grundriss der christl. Apologetik (2nd ed., 1902).

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