Albert Heinrich Friedrich Stephan Ernst Louis Hauck (9 December 1845, Wassertrüdingen

Wassertrüdingen

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 - 7 April 1918, Leipzig

Leipzig

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) was a German

Germany

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 theologian and church historian

History of Christianity

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Hauck began studying theology in 1864 in Erlangen

Erlangen

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, and then from 1866 in Berlin

Berlin

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, where he was taught by Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a German historian, considered one of the founders of modern source-based history. Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources , an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics .-...

. He passed the state exam in 1868 in Ansbach

Ansbach

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach, is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Ansbach is situated southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the Fränkische Rezat, a tributary of the Main river. As of 2004, its population was 40,723.Ansbach...

. In 1870 he became vicar

Vicar

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 in Munich

Munich

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, moved to Feldkirchen in 1871, and in 1875 was appointed priest

Priest

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 for the parish

Parish

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 of Frankenheim

Bischofsheim an der Rhön

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Since 1878 Hauck taught church history and Christian archeology

Biblical archaeology school

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 at the University of Erlangen, and in 1889 was appointed professor of church history at the University of Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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. His most important publication is the Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands ("Church history of Germany," 1887–1920), a standard reference in the field. He also edited and published the third edition of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

The Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge is a religious encyclopedia. It is based on an earlier German encyclopedia, the Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche. Like the Realencyklopädie, it focuses on Christianity from a primarily Protestant point of...

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Literatur

• Martin Teubner: Historismus und Kirchengeschichtsschreibung. Leben und Werk Albert Haucks (1845–1918) bis zu seinem Wechsel nach Leipzig 1889. Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-55205-6.