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SCHWEGLER, ALBERT (1819-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHWEGLER, See also:ALBERT (1819-1857) , See also:German philosopher and theologian, was See also:born at Michelbach in See also:Wurttemberg on the loth of See also:February 1819, the son of a See also:country pastor. He entered the university of See also:Tubingen in 1836, and was one of the earliest pupils of F. C. See also:Baur, under whose See also:influence he devoted himself to See also:church See also:history. His first See also:work was Der Montanismus u. See also:die christliche Kirche See also:des 2ten Jahrhunderts (1841), in which he pointed out for the first See also:time that See also:Montanism was much more than an isolated outbreak of See also:eccentric fanaticism in the See also:early church, though he himself introduced fresh misconceptions by connecting it with Ebionitism as he conceived the latter. This work, with other essays, brought him into conflict with the authorities of the church, in consequence of which he gave up See also:theology as his professional study and See also:chose that of See also:philosophy. In 1843 he founded the Jahrbiicher der Gegenwart, and became Privatdozent of philosophy and classical See also:philology in Tubingen university. In 1848 he was made See also:professor extraordinarius of See also:Roman literature and See also:archaeology, and soon afterwards professor ordinarius of history. He died on the 5th of See also:January 1857. His See also:principal theological work was Das nachapostolische Zeitalter (2 vols., 1846). It was this See also:book which first put before the See also:world, with Schwegler's characteristic boldness and clearness, the results of the See also:critical labours of the earlier representatives of the new Tubingen school in relation to the first development of See also:Christianity. Schwegler published also an edition of the Clementine Homilies (1847), and of See also:Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History (1852) ; in philosophy Obersetzung and Erlauterung der aristot.

Metaphysik (4 vols., 1847-1848), his excellent Geschichte der Philosophie See also:

im Umriss (1848, 14th ed. 1887; loth edition of Eng. trans. by J. Hutchison See also:Stirling, 1888), and a See also:posthumous Geschichte der Griech. Philosophie (1859)• In history he began a Romische Geschichte (vols. i.-iii., 1853-1858, 2nd ed. 1867–1872), which he brought down only to the See also:laws of See also:Licinius. See See also:Edward See also:Zeller, Vortrage, vol. ii. (1878), pp. 329-363; and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.

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