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MICHAEL BAUMGARTEN (1812-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 540 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL See also:BAUMGARTEN (1812-1889)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at Haseldorf in See also:Schleswig-See also:Holstein on the 25th of See also:March 1812 . He studied at See also:Kiel University (1832), and became See also:professor ordinarius of See also:theology at See also:Rostock (1850) . A liberal See also:scholar, he became widely known in 1854 through a See also:work, See also:Die Nachtgesichte Sacharjas . Eine Prophetenstimme aus der Gegenwart, in which, starting from texts in the Old Testament and assuming the See also:tone of a See also:prophet, he discussed topics of every See also:kind . At a See also:pastoral See also:conference in 1856 he boldly defended evangelical freedom as regards the legal sanctity of See also:Sunday . This, with other attempts to liberalize See also:religion, brought him into conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities of See also:Mecklenburg, and in 1858 he was deprived of his professorship . He then travelled throughout See also:Germany, demanding See also:justice, telling the See also:story of his See also:life (Christliche Selbstgesprache, 1861), and lecturing on the Iife of Jesus (Die Geschichte Jesu . See also:Fur das Verstandniss der Gegenwart, 1859) . In 1865 he helped to found the Deutsche Proteslantenverein, but withdrew from it in 1877 . On several occasions (1874, 1877 and 1878) he sat in the Reichstag as a member of the progressive party . He died on the 21st of See also:July 1889 . Other See also:works: Apostelgeschichte See also:oder Entwicklungsgang der Kirche von See also:Jerusalem bis Rom (2 vols .

2nd ed., 1859), and Doktor See also:

Martin See also:Luther, ein Volksbuch (1883) . H . H . Studt published his autobiography in 1891 (2 Vols.); see also C . Schwartz, Neueste Theologie (1869); Lichtenberger, Hist . Germ . Theol., 1889; Calwer-See also:Zeller, Kirchen-Lexikon . See also:BAUMGARTEN-See also:CRUSIUS, See also:LUDWIG See also:FRIEDRICH See also:OTTO (1788-1842), German Protestant divine, was born at See also:Merseburg . In 1805 he entered the university of See also:Leipzig and studied theology and See also:philology . After acting as Privatdocent at Leipzig, he was, in 1812, appointed professor extraordinarius of theology at See also:Jena, where he remained. to the end of his life, rising gradually to the See also:head of the theological See also:faculty . He died on the 31st of May 1842 . With the exception of See also:Church See also:history, he lectured on all branches of so-called theoretical theology, especially on New Testament exegesis, biblical theology, dogmatic See also:ethics, and the history of See also:dogma, and his comprehensive knowledge, accurate scholarship and wide sympathies gave See also:peculiar value to his lectures and See also:treatises, especially those on the development of church See also:doctrine .

His published works are many, the most important being:—Lehrbuch der christlichen !Sittenlehre (1826); Grundzuge der biblischen Theologie (1828); Lehr See also:

buck der Dogmengeschichte (1832); Compendium der Dogmengeschichte (1840) . The last, perhaps his best work, was See also:left unfinished, but was completed from his notes in 1846 by Karl See also:Hase .

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