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Philip Schaff

Philip Schaff, was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a Church historian who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States.

Schaff was born in Chur, Switzerland, and educated at the gymnasium of Stuttgart. At the universities of Tübingen, Halle and Berlin, he was successively influenced by Ferdinand Christian Baur and Schmid, by Friedrich August Tholuck and Julius Müller, by David Strauss and, above all, Johann August Wilhelm Neander. At Berlin in 1841 he took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity and passed examinations for a professorship. He then traveled through Italy and Sicily as tutor to Baron Krischer. In 1842, he was Privatdozent in the University of Berlin, where he lectured on exegesis and church history. In 1843, he was called to become Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.

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Born January 1, 1819
Died October 20, 1893

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    First published in 1886 — 16 editions
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    First published in 1908 — 13 editions
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Born January 1, 1819
Died October 20, 1893

Subjects

Church history, Early Christian literature, Fathers of the church, Bible, Reformed Church, History, Creeds, History and criticism, Theology, Hymns, Person and offices, Catechisms, Religion, German Hymns, Littérature chrétienne primitive, Apostolic Fathers, Pères de l'Église, Commentaries, Doctrinal Theology, Freedom of religion, Reformation, Versions, Dictionaries, Protestantism, Civilization

Places

United States, Germany, Egypt, Middle East, Palestine, Great Britain, Italy, Sinai (Egypt), Switzerland, Vatican City

People

Jesus Christ, Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo, August Neander (1789-1850), Ernest Renan (1823-1892), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560), James Brother of the Lord, Saint, Jean Calvin (1509-1564), Philip Schaff (1819-1893), Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430), Charles A. Briggs (1841-1913), Francesco Spira (-1548), H. Oort (1836-1927), James Saint, Son of Alphaeus, James the Lesser, Saint, John Chrysostom Saint (d. 407), Martin Luther (1483-1546), Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), Schaaf family, Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531)

Time

Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, 19th century, Early church, ca. 30-600, 16th century, 1783-1865, Civil War, 1861-1865, 17th century, 20th century, Middle Ages, 600-1500

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