Adolph Hausrath

Adolf house Rath ( pseudonym George Taylor, born January 13, 1837 in Karlsruhe, † August 2, 1909 in Heidelberg ) was a Protestant theologian and writer. House counsel applies in addition to Felix Dahn and Georg Ebers as the main representative of the so-called "Professor novel".

Life

His father August House counsel (1806-1847) was a renowned preacher and together with Carl Zittel and Emil Otto Schellenberg (1816-1873) leader of the Liberal Party.

House Rath studied (Member of the fraternity Arminia on the castle cellar, including lectures by Johann Gustav Droysen, Karl August Hase and Kuno Fischer) and Heidelberg. Göttingen, Berlin, Jena In 1861 he received his doctorate in Berlin Lic theol. and was vicar in Heidelberg, where he habilitated in 1862. In 1864 he was assessor in the evangelical church Oberkirchenrat of Baden in Karlsruhe, in 1867 associate, 1872 Associate Professor of New Testament exegesis and church history in Heidelberg. In 1889 he was a member of the University of Heidelberg as a representative of the First Chamber of the States General Baden.

1864 married Henriette Rath House Fallstein ( 1840-1895 ), sister of Max Weber's mother Helene Weber. They had eleven children, of whom eight reached adulthood: August (1865-1944), Hans (1866-1945), Laura (1867-1928), Emilie (1870-1934) behaves. Jolly, Paula behaves. Schmidt (1872-1958), Mary (1875-1894), Margaret (1877-1965) and Lilli behaves. Hermann ( 1882-1965 ). Adolf household furniture and his wife Henriette, born Fallstein were laid to rest on Mount Cemetery (Heidelberg )

Work and significance

House counsel was ecclesiastically and politically a dedicated liberal. Under the influence of his Heidelberg teacher Richard Rothe ( which he devoted a detailed biography ) and Ludwig Hausser, he participated in the founding of the German Protestant Association and became its first secretary. His New Testament and church history works are mainly biographical nature ( the widest dissemination had his popular biography of Martin Luther ). They are without sustainable scientific value, but are characterized, like home Raths novels by psychological empathy from. As a colleague of Heinrich von Treitschke ( his biography Treitschke was translated into English) he saw Protestantism as dominant culture of the Empire and fought against Catholics and Social Democrats.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The inquisitor Conrad of Marburg. Heidelberg 1861
  • New Testament History (2nd edition, Heidelberg 1877-79, 4 vols, from which his work The Apostle Paul (2nd edition, 1872) is an excerpt )
  • Religious speeches and reflections. Leipzig 1873; 2nd edition 1882
  • David Friedrich Strauss and the theology of his time. Heidelberg 1877-78, 2 vols
  • Small fonts religio-historical content. Leipzig 1883.
  • Peter Abelard. Leipzig 1893
  • Do-gooder in the Middle Ages. Leipzig 1895
  • History of the theological faculty of Heidelberg in the 19th century. Heidelberg 1901.
  • In memory of Heinrich von Treitschke. Old acquaintances. Memory leaves II, Leipzig 1901 ( English: The Life of Treitschke In: . Treitschke: his life and works Translated into English for the first time London:. . Jarrold, 1914)
  • Richard Rothe and his friends. 2 vols, Berlin 1902-1906.
  • Luther's life. Berlin 1904

Under the pseudonym George Taylor he published the historical novels:

  • Antinous (Leipzig 1880, 6th edition 1886);
  • Clytia (Leipzig 1883, 5th edition 1884);
  • Jetta (Leipzig 1884);
  • Elfriede (Leipzig 1885);
  • Father Maternus (Leipzig 1898).
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