Johann Jakob Herzog
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Johann Jakob Herzog (12 September 1805 – 30 September 1882) was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.
Herzog was born in Basel. 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.<ref name=SU>Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz biography</ref>
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.<ref name=SU/>
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).<ref>de.Wikisource Encyclopaedia for Protestant theology and church.</ref><ref>AD 508 Source Book by Heidi Heiks</ref> 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).<ref>The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Template:OCLC</ref> He died in Erlangen.
Other writings by Herzog
- Das Leben Johannes Oekolampads und die Reformation der Kirche zu Basel, 1843.<ref>Catalog Hathitrust published works</ref>
- Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren, 1853.<ref>WorldCat Title Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren</ref>
- Abriss der gesammten Kirchengeschichte (3 volumes, 1876–1882, 2nd edition, G Koffmane, Leipzig, 1890–1892).
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- 1805 births
- 1882 deaths
- People from Basel-Stadt
- Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Academic staff of the University of Halle
- Academic staff of the University of Lausanne
- 19th-century German Protestant theologians
- Swiss Protestant theologians
- 19th-century German historians
- Reformation historians
- Contributors to the Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
- German male non-fiction writers
- 19th-century male writers