Wilhelm Gass

Life

Gaß was born in Breslau, where his father Joachim Christian Gaß (1766-1831), a trusted friend of Friedrich Schleiermacher , was a consistorial advisor and professor of theology . He completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau in 1839, became an associate professor in 1846 , came to the University of Greifswald as a full professor in 1847 , to Giessen in 1861 , and to Heidelberg in 1868 .

Contributions to church literature and the history of dogmas in the Greek Middle Ages (Breslau 1844–49, 2 vols.);

Georg Calixtus and Syncretism (Breslau 1846);

History of Protestant Dogmatics (Berlin 1854–67, 4 vols.);

On the history of the Athos monasteries (Giessen 1865);

The Doctrine of Conscience (Berlin 1869);

Symbolism of the Greek Church (Berlin);

Optimism and pessimism . The course of the Christian world and life view (Berlin 1876);

History of ethics (Berlin 1881, vol. 1).

From the estate of Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke he was with Alexander Vial whose Modern Church History (Hall 1874-80, 3 vols.) Out.

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personal data
SURNAME	Gass, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gaß, Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant theologian, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 28, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1889
Place of death	Heidelberg