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ALBERT SCHWEGLER (1819-1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBERT See also:SCHWEGLER (1819-1857)  , See also:German philosopher and theologian, was See also:born at Michelbach in See also:Wurttemberg on the loth of See also:February 1819, the son of a See also:country pastor . He entered the university of See also:Tubingen in 1836, and was one of the earliest pupils of F . C . See also:Baur, under whose See also:influence he devoted himself to See also:church See also:history . His first See also:work was Der Montanismus u. See also:die christliche Kirche See also:des 2ten Jahrhunderts (1841), in which he pointed out for the first See also:time that See also:Montanism was much more than an isolated outbreak of See also:eccentric fanaticism in the See also:early church, though he himself introduced fresh misconceptions by connecting it with Ebionitism as he conceived the latter . This work, with other essays, brought him into conflict with the authorities of the church, in consequence of which he gave up See also:theology as his professional study and See also:chose that of See also:philosophy . In 1843 he founded the Jahrbiicher der Gegenwart, and became Privatdozent of philosophy and classical See also:philology in Tubingen university . In 1848 he was made See also:professor extraordinarius of See also:Roman literature and See also:archaeology, and soon afterwards professor ordinarius of history . He died on the 5th of See also:January 1857 . His See also:principal theological work was Das nachapostolische Zeitalter (2 vols., 1846) . It was this See also:book which first put before the See also:world, with See also:Schwegler's characteristic boldness and clearness, the results of the See also:critical labours of the earlier representatives of the new Tubingen school in relation to the first development of See also:Christianity . Schwegler published also an edition of the Clementine Homilies (1847), and of See also:Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History (1852) ; in philosophy Obersetzung and Erlauterung der aristot .

Metaphysik (4 vols., 1847-1848), his excellent Geschichte der Philosophie See also:

im Umriss (1848, 14th ed . 1887; loth edition of Eng. trans. by J . Hutchison See also:Stirling, 1888), and a See also:posthumous Geschichte der Griech . Philosophie (1859)• In history he began a Romische Geschichte (vols. i.-iii., 1853-1858, 2nd ed . 1867–1872), which he brought down only to the See also:laws of See also:Licinius . See See also:Edward See also:Zeller, Vortrage, vol. ii . (1878), pp . 329-363; and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie .

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