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- Aug. 12, 1805, Basel, Switz.
- Died:
- Sept. 30, 1882, Erlangen, Ger. (aged 77)
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Johann Jakob Herzog
German theologian
Johann Jakob Herzog (born Aug. 12, 1805, Basel, Switz.—died Sept. 30, 1882, Erlangen, Ger.) was a German Protestant theologian, professor of church history (University of Halle, 1847–54) and New Testament exegesis (University of Erlangen, 1854–77), and authority on the Hussite-Waldensian church. He compiled and edited the standard theological reference work Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (22 vols., 1854–68), which was published in an abridged English version as The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 vol., 1951–54).
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