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KARL WEIZSACKER (1822-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KARL

WEIZSACKER (1822-1899)  , German
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Protestant theologian, was born at
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Oehringen near
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Heilbronn in
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Wurttemberg, on the 11th of December 1822 . After studying at
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Tubingen and Berlin, he became Privatdozent at Tubingen in 1847 and eventually (r861) professor of ecclesiastical and dogmatic
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history . From 1856 to 1878 he helped to edit the Jahrbucher fie,- deutsche Theologie; and his elaborate studies Untersuchungen uber die evangelische Geschichte, are Quellen and den Gang ihrer Entwicklung (1864) and Das apostolische Zeitalter der christl . Kirche (1886, 2nd ed . 1893; Engl. trans . 1894-1895) made him widely known and respected . He died on the 13th of August 1899 . His son, Karl von Weizsdcker (b . 1853), was appointed in 190o Kultusminister for Wurttemberg . Weizs5cker's other
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works include Zur Kritik
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des Barnabasbriefs (1863) and Ferdinand Christian Baur (1892) . Cf . Hegler, Zur Erinnerung an.Karl Weizsdcker (1900) .

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