Albert Hauck

Albert Heinrich Friedrich Stephan Ernst Louis Hauck (born December 9, 1845 in Wassertrüdingen , † April 7, 1918 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian .

Life

Albert Hauck came from a proven milling family Hauck from Wassertrüdingen in the 17th and 18th centuries . His father was Albert Hauck (1810-1854), who worked as a lawyer and notary. From 1864 he studied theology in Erlangen and from 1866 in Berlin , where he was influenced by Leopold von Ranke . In 1868 he passed the first state examination in Ansbach. In 1870 he became vicar in Munich, in 1871 in Feldkirchen and in 1875 received the parish in Frankenheim .

Hauck taught since 1878 as an associate professor of church history and Christian archeology at the University of Erlangen . Since 1882 he was a full professor of church history and Christian archeology there. In 1889 he was appointed professor of church history at the University of Leipzig . From 1898 to 1899 he was rector of the university.

In 1899 he received the Verdun Prize . A year later he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1891 he was a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences in Leipzig. In 1894 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

His most important work is the church history of Germany (1887–1920). It is considered a standard work in church history. He was also the sole editor of the third edition of the Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church .

Among his children was the theology professor Friedrich Hauck (1882–1954) and his grandson was the historian Karl Hauck (1916–2007).

Fonts (selection)

• The emergence of the Christ type in occidental art (= collection of lectures for the German people. Vol. 3.2). Winter, Heidelberg 1880.
• Germany and England in their church relations. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1917.
• The Reformation and its Effect on Life. Six folk high school lectures. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1918.
• The separation of church and state. A presentation. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1919.
• Jesus. Collected lectures. 4th edition. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1922.
• Church history of Germany. Parts 1-5. 9th, unchanged edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958.

literature

• Hermann Heimpel :  Hauck, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 75 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hauck, Albert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 592-593.
• Kurt Nowak : Albert Hauck. Historian of the German Middle Ages in the Wilhelmine Empire. In: Hostels of Christianity. Yearbook for German Church History. Vol. 19, 1995, ISSN  0437-3014 , pp. 27-44.
• Martin Teubner: Historicism and church historiography. Life and work of Albert Hauck (1845–1918) until he moved to Leipzig in 1889 (= research on the history of the church and dogma. 94). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-55205-6 (also: Göttingen, University, dissertation, 2006).

Web links

Wikisource: Albert Hauck  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Albert Hauck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Albert Hauck in the Saxon Bibliography
• Overview of Albert Hauck's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1889 to summer semester 1914)
• Albert Hauck in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Remarks

1. ^ Membership page of Hauck at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
2. ^ Members of the SAW: Albert Hauck. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-historical class. Part 3, 246 = treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Mathematical-physical class. Part 3 , 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 105.