biography
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Schleiermacher, Friedrich (Ernst Daniel)
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pronunciation:
[shliyermahkher]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1768–1834)
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| biography:
| Theologian and philosopher, born in Wrocław, SW Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia). He studied at Halle, became a preacher in Berlin (1796), and was professor at Halle (1804–6) and Berlin (from 1810). He was a leader of the movement which led to the union in 1817 of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Prussia. His most important work is Der Christliche Glaube (1821–2, The Christian Faith), and he also wrote on Christian ethics, a life of Jesus, sermons, and letters. He is generally held to be the founder of modern Protestant theology. |
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