HEINRICH PHILIPP KONRAD

HENKE (1752 — 1809)  , German theologian, best known as a writer on church history, was born at Hehlen, Brunswick, on the 3rd of July 1752 . He was educated at the gymnasium of Brunswick and the university of Helmstedt, and from 1778 to 1809 he was professor, first of philosophy, then of theology, in that university . In 1803 he was appointed principal of the Carolinum in Brunswick as well . He died on the 2nd of May 1809 . Henke belonged to the rationalistic school . His principal work (Allgemeine Geschichte der christl . Kirche, 6 vols., 1788—1804; 2nd ed., 1795—1806) is commended by F . C . Baur for fullness, accuracy and artistic composition . His other works are Lineamenta institutionum fzcjei Christianae historico-criticarum (1783), Opuscula academica (1802) and two volumes of Predigten . He was also editor of the Magazin fur die Religionsphilosophie, Exegese and Kirchengeschichte (1793—1802) and the Archiv fur die neueste Kirchengeschichte (1794—1799) . His son, ERNST LUDWIG THEODOR HENKE (1804-1872), after studying at the university of Jena, became professor extraordinarius there in 1833, and professor ordinarius of Marburg in 1839 .

He is known as the author of monographs upon Georg Calixt u.

seine Zeit (1853—186o), Papst Pius VII . (186o), Konrad von Marburg (1861), Kaspar Peucer u . Nik . Krell (1865), Jak . Friedr . Fries (1867), Zur neuern Kirchengeschichte (1867) .