Johann Jakob Herzog

Johann Jakob Herzog (12 September 1805, Basel – 30 September 1882, Erlangen), was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.

Herzog studied theology at the University of Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830. In 1835-1846 he was a professor of historical theology at the Academy in Lausanne. Afterwards he served as a professor in Halle, and eventually (1854), he settled at Erlangen as a professor of church history.[1]

Herzog is remembered for his writings on the history of the Reformation (Zwingli, John Calvin, Johannes Oecolampadius), and for his studies of the Waldensian Church.[1]

Herzog was author of the "Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche" (1853–1868, 22 volumes), of which a new edition, in collaboration with Gustav Leopold Plitt and Albert Hauck, was published from 1877 to 1888 (18 volumes). From 1896 to 1913, Hauck released a third edition of the encyclopedia (24 volumes; Vol 1-22, 1896-1909, with two later supplements).[2][3] Based on the encyclopedia's third edition, the "New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" was subsequently published in English from 1908 to 1914 (13 volumes).[4]

Other writings by Herzog

References

  1. 1 2 Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz biography
  2. de.Wikisource Encyclopaedia for Protestant theology and church.
  3. AD 508 Source Book by Heidi Heiks
  4. WorldCat Title The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.
  5. Catalog Hathitrust published works
  6. WorldCat Title Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren

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