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KARL RUDOLF HAGENBACH (1801-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUDOLF See also:HAGENBACH (1801-1874)  , See also:German See also:church historian, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:March 1801 at See also:Basel, where his See also:father was a practising physician . His preliminary See also:education was received at a Pestalozzian school, and afterwards at the gymnasium, whence in due course he passed to the newly reorganized See also:local university . He See also:early devoted himself to theological studies and the service of the church, while at the same See also:time cherishing and developing broad " humanistic " tendencies which found expression in many ways and especially in an enthusiastic admiration for the writings of See also:Herder . The years 1820-1823 were spent first at See also:Bonn, where G . C . F . Lucke (1791-1855) exerted a powerful See also:influence on his thought, and afterwards at See also:Berlin, where See also:Schleiermacher and See also:Neander became his masters . Returning in 1823 to Basel, where W . M . L. de Wette had recently been appointed to a theological See also:chair, he distinguished himself greatly by his trial-dissertation, Observationes hisloricohermeneulicae circa Origenis melhodum inter pretendae sacrae Scripturae; in 1824 he became See also:professor extraordinarius, and in 1829 professor ordinarius of See also:theology . Apart from his See also:academic labours in connexion with the See also:history of See also:dogma and of the church, he lived a See also:life of See also:great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a See also:citizen; and at his " See also:jubilee " in 1873, not only the university and See also:town of Basel but also the various churches of See also:Switzerland See also:united to do him See also:honour . He died at Basel on the 7th of See also:June 1874 .

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Hagenbach was a voluminous author in many departments, but he is specially distinguished as a writer on church history . Though neither so learned and condensed as the contributions of See also:Gieseler, nor so See also:original and profound as those of Neander, his lectures are clear, attractive and See also:free from narrow sectarian See also:prejudice . In dogmatics, while avowedly a See also:champion of the " See also:mediation theology " (Vermiltelungstheologie), based upon the fundamental conceptions of Herder and Schleiermacher, he was much less revolutionary than were many others of his school . He sought to maintain the old See also:confessional documents, and to make the See also:objective prevail over the purely subjective manner of viewing theological questions . But he himself was aware that in the endeavour to do so he was not always successful, and that his delineations of See also:Christian dogma often betrayed a vacillating and uncertain See also:hand . His See also:works include Tabellarische Ubersicht der Dogmengeschichle (1828) ; Encyclopa'See also:die u . Methodologie der theol . Wissenschaften (1833) Vorlesungen 1Tber Wesen u . Geschichte der See also:Reformation u. See also:des Protestantismus (1834–1843); Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (184o–1841, 5th ed., 1867; See also:English transl., 185o) ; Vorlesungen caber die Geschichte der See also:alien Kirche (1853–1855) ; Vorlesungen fiber die Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters (186o–1861) ; Grundlinien der Homiletik u . Liturgik (1863); See also:biographies of Johannes See also:Oecolampadius (1482–1564) and See also:Oswald See also:Myconius (1488–1552) and a Geschichte der theol . Schule Basels (186o); his Predigten (1858–1875), two volumes of poems entitled See also:Luther u. See also:seine Zeit (1838), and Gedichte (1846) . The lectures on church history under the See also:general See also:title Vorlesungen caber die Kirchengeschichte von der dltesten Zell bis zum rglen Jahrhundert were reissued in seven volumes (1868–1872) .

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article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie .

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