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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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WEIZSACKER (1822-1899)  , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Oehringen near See also:Heilbronn in See also:Wurttemberg, on the 11th of See also:December 1822 . After studying at See also:Tubingen and See also:Berlin, he became Privatdozent at Tubingen in 1847 and eventually (r861) See also:professor of ecclesiastical and dogmatic See also:history . From 1856 to 1878 he helped to edit the Jahrbucher fie,- deutsche Theologie; and his elaborate studies Untersuchungen uber See also: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 See also:August 1899 . His son, Karl von Weizsdcker (b . 1853), was appointed in 190o Kultusminister for Wurttemberg . Weizs5cker's other See also:works include Zur Kritik See also:des Barnabasbriefs (1863) and See also:Ferdinand See also:Christian See also:Baur (1892) . Cf . Hegler, Zur Erinnerung an.Karl Weizsdcker (1900) .

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