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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST WILHELM See also:NEANDER (1789-1850)  , See also:German theologian and See also:church historian, was See also:born at See also:Gottingen on the 17th of See also:January 1789 . His See also:father, See also:Emmanuel Mendel, is said to have been a Jewish pedlar, but See also:August adopted the name of See also:Neander on his See also:baptism as a See also:Christian . While still very See also:young, he removed with his See also:mother to See also:Hamburg . There, as throughout See also:life, the simplicity of his See also:personal See also:appearance and the oddity of his See also:manners attracted See also:notice, but still more, his See also:great See also:industry and See also:mental See also:power . From the See also:grammar-school (Johanneum) he passed to the gymnasium, where the study of See also:Plato appears especially to have engrossed him . Considerable See also:interest attaches to his See also:early companionship with Wilhelm See also:Neumann and certain others, among whom were the writer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the poet Adelbert von See also:Chamisso . Baptized on the 25th of See also:February 18o6, in the same See also:year Neander went to See also:Halle to study divinity . Here See also:Schleiermacher was then lecturing . Neander found in him the very impulse which he needed, while Schleiermacher found a See also:pupil of thoroughly congenial feeling, and one destined to carry out his views in a higher and more effective Christian See also:form than he himself was capable of imparting to them . But before the year had closed the events of the Franco-Prussian See also:War compelled his removal t6 Gottingen . There he continued his studies with ardour, made himself yet more See also:master of Plato and See also:Plutarch, and became especially advanced in See also:theology under the See also:venerable G . J .

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Planck (1751-1833) . The impulse communicated by Schleiermacher was confirmed by Planck, and he seems now to have realized that the See also:original investigation of Christian See also:history was to form the great See also:work of his life . Having finished his university course, he returned to Hamburg, and passed his examination for the Christian See also:ministry . After an See also:interval of about eighteen months, however, he definitively betook himself to an See also:academic career, " habilitating " in See also:Heidelberg, where two vacancies had occurred in the theological See also:faculty of the university . He entered upon his work here as a theological teacher in 1811; and in 1812 he became a See also:professor . In the same year (1812) he first appeared as an author by the publication of his monograph Uber den Kaiser Julianus and sein Zeitalter . The fresh insight into the history of the church evinced by this work at once See also:drew See also:attention to its author, and even before he had terminated the first year of his academical labours at Heidelberg, he was called to See also:Berlin, where he was appointed professor of theology . In the year following his See also:appointment he published a second monograph Der Heilige Bernhard and sein Zeitalter (Berlin, '813), and then in 1818 his work on See also:Gnosticism (Genetische Entwickelung der vornehmsten gnastischen Systeme) . A still more extended an elaborate monograph than either of the preceding followed in 1822, Der Heilige Johannes Chrysostomus and See also:die Kirche, besonders See also:des Orients in dessen Zeitalter, and again, in 1824, another on See also:Tertullian (Antignostikus) . He had in the meantime, however, begun his great work, to which these several efforts were only preparatory studies . The first See also:volume of his Allgemeine Geschichte der christlichen See also:Religion and Kirche embracing the history of the first three centuries, made its appearance in 1825 . The others followed at intervals—the fifth, which appeared in 1842, bringing down the narrative to the pontificate of Bcniface VIII .

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posthumous volume, edited by C . F . T . See also:Schneider in 1852, carried it on to the See also:period of the See also:council of See also:Basel .

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