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JOHANN JAKOB HERZOG (1805-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAKOB See also:HERZOG (1805-1882)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Basel-on the 12th of See also:September 1805 . He studied at Basel and See also:Berlin, and eventually (1854) settled at See also:Erlangen as See also:professor of See also:church See also:history . He died there on the 3oth of September 1882, having retired in 1877 . His most See also:note-worthy achievement was the publication of the Realencyklopadie See also:fur prolestantische Theologie and Kirche (1853–1868, 22 vols.), of which he undertook a new edition with G . L . Plitt (1836–1880) in 1877, and after Plitt's See also:death with See also:Albert Hauck (b . 1845) . Hauck began the publication of the third edition in 1896 (completed in 22 vols., 1909) . His other See also:works include Joh . See also:Calvin (1843), Leben Okolampads (1843), See also:Die romanischen Waldenser (1853), Abriss der gesamten Kirchengeschichte (3 vols, 1876-1882, 2nd ed., G . Koffmane, See also:Leipzig, 1890-1892) . and died at Edlach on the 3rd of See also:July 19o4 .

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part of his career was associated with See also:Vienna, where he acquired high repute as a See also:literary journalist . He was also a dramatist, and apart from his prominence as a Jewish Nationalist would have found a See also:niche in the See also:temple of fame . All' his other claims to renown, however, sink into insignificance when compared with his See also:work as the reviver of Jewish hopes for a restoration to See also:political See also:autonomy . See also:Herzl was stirred by sympathy for the misery of See also:Jews under persecution, but he was even more powerfully moved by the difficulties experienced under conditions of assimilation . See also:Modern See also:anti-Semitism, he See also:felt, was both like and unlike the See also:medieval . The old See also:physical attacks on the Jews continued in See also:Russia, but there was added the reluctance of several See also:national See also:groups in See also:Europe to admit the Jews to social equality .. Herzl believed that the humanitarian hopes which inspired men at the end of the 18th and during the larger part of the 19th centuries had failed . The walls of the ghettos had been See also:cast down, but the Jews could find no entry into the See also:comity of nations . The new nationalism of 1848 did not deprive the Jews of political rights, but it denied them both the amenities of friendly inter-course and the opportunity of distinction in the university, the See also:army and the professions . Many Jews questioned this diagnosis, and refused to see in the new anti-Semitism (q.v.) which spread over Europe in 1881 any more than a temporary reaction against the cosmopolitanism of the See also:French Revolution . In 1896 Herzl published his famous pamphlet " Der Judenstaat." Holding that the only alternatives for the Jews were See also:complete merging by intermarriage or self-preservation by a national re-See also:union, he boldly advocated the second course . He' did not at first insist on See also:Palestine as the new Jewish See also:home, nor did he attach himself to religious sentiment .

The expectation of a Messianic restoration to the See also:

Holy See also:Land has always been strong, if often latent, in the Jewish consciousness . But Herzl approached the subject entirely on its See also:secular See also:side, and his See also:solution was economic and political rather than sentimental . He was a strong See also:advocate for the complete separation of Church and See also:State . The See also:influence of Herzl's pamphlet, the progress of the See also:movement he initiated, the subsequent modifications of his plans, are told at length in the See also:article See also:ZIONISM . His proposals undoubtedly roused an extraordinary See also:enthusiasm, and though he almost completely failed to win to his cause the classes, he rallied the masses with sensational success . He unexpectedly gained the See also:accession of many Jews by See also:race who were indifferent to the religious aspect of Judaism, but he quite failed to convince the leaders of Jewish thought, who from first to last remained (with such conspicuous exceptions as See also:Nordau and See also:Zangwill) See also:deaf to his See also:pleading . The orthodox were at first cool because they had always dreamed of a nationalism inspired by messianic ideals, while the liberals had See also:long come to dissociate those universalistic ideals from all national limitations . Herzl, however, succeeded in assembling several congresses at Basel (beginning in 1897), and at these congresses were enacted remark-able scenes of enthusiasm for the cause and devotion to its See also:leader . At all these assemblies the same ideal was formulated: " the establishing for the Jewish See also:people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine." Herzl's See also:personal See also:charm was irresistible . Among his political opponents he had some See also:close personal See also:friends . His sincerity, his eloquence, his tact, his devotion, his See also:power, were recognized on all hands . He spent his whole strength in the furtherance of his ideas .

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Diplomatic interviews, exhausting journeys, impressive See also:mass meetings, brilliant literary propaganda—all these methods were employed by him to the utmost limit of self-denial . In r9or he was received by the See also:sultan; the See also:pope and many See also:European statesmen gave him audiences . The See also:British See also:government was ready to See also:grant land for an autonomous See also:settlement in See also:East See also:Africa . This last See also:scheme was fatal to Herzl's See also:peace of mind . Even as a temporary measure, the choice of an extra-Palestinian site for the Jewish state was bitterly opposed by many Zionists; others (with whom Herzl appears to have sympathized) thought that as Palestine was, at all events momentarily, inaccessible,. it was expedient to See also:form a settlement elsewhere .

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