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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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Swiss-born, American theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1819–1893)

Born January 1, 1819
Died October 20, 1893

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Swiss-born, American theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1819–1893)

Born January 1, 1819
Died October 20, 1893
Subjects
Early Christian literature, Fathers of the church, Church history, Reformed Church, Bible, Hymns, Creeds, Littérature chrétienne primitive, Apostolic Fathers, History, Pères de l'Église, Doctrinal Theology, German Hymns, History and criticism, Theology, Collections, Correspondence, Reformation, Commentaries, Early church, German Reformed Church (U.S.), Catechisms, English Hymns, Person and offices, Reformed Church in the United States
Places
United States, Egypt, Germany, Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Vatican City
People
Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Jesus Christ, August Neander (1789-1850), Charles A. Briggs (1841-1913), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Ernest Renan (1823-1892), John Chrysostom Saint (d. 407), Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
Time
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, 19th century, 20th century

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