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Karl August von Hase
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or KARL AUGUST VON HASE (1800-1890), German Protestant theologian and Church historian, was born at Steinbach in Saxony on the 25th of August 1800. He studied at Leipzig and Erlangen, and in 1829 was called to Jena as professor of theology. He retired in 1883 and was made a baron. He died at Jena on the 3rd of January 1890. Hase's aim was to reconcile modern culture with historical Christianity in a scientific way. But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist. Indeed, he vigorously attacked rationalism, as distinguished from the rational principle, charging it with being unscientific inasmuch as it ignored the historical significance of Christianity, shut its eyes to individuality and failed to give religious feeling its due. His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870), the value of which "lies partly in the full and judiciously chosen historical materials prefixed to each dogma, and partly in the skill, caution and tact with which the permanent religious significance of various dogmas is discussed" (Otto Pfleiderer). More popular in style is his Gnosis oder prof.-evang. Glaubenslehre (3 vols., 1827-1829; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1869-1870). But his reputation rests chiefly on his treatment of Church history in his Kirchengeschichte, Lehrbuc zunachst fiir akadenaische Vorlesungen (1834, 12th ed., 'goo).
His biographical studies, Franz von Assisi (1856; 2nd ed., 1892), Katerina von Siena (1864; 2nd ed., 1892), Neue Propheten (Di Jungfrau von Orleans, Savonarola, Thomas Miinzer) are judiciou and sympathetic. Other works are: Hutterus redivivus oder Dog matik der evang.-luth. Kirche (1827; 12th ed., 1883), in which h sought to present the teaching of the Protestant church in such way as Hutter would have reconstructed it, had he still been alive Leben Jesu (1829; 5th ed., 1865; Eng. trans., 1860); in an enlarge form, Geschichte Jesu (2nd ed., 1891); and Handbuch der Prot Polemik gegen die rom.-kath. Kirche (1862; 7th ed., 1900; Eng trans., 1906).
For his life see his Ideate and Irrtumer (1872
5th ed., 1894) an Annalen meines Lebens (1891); and cf. generally Otto Pfleiderer Development of Theology (1890); F. Lichtenberger, Hist. of Germa Theology (1889).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Karl August von Hase'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/karl-august-von-hase.html. 1910.
