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Ferdinand Christian Baur

Ferdinand Christian Baur

German theologian

Johan Ludvig Heiberg, detail of a lithograph, 1869, after a portrait by David Monies, c. 1844; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.

Johan Ludvig Heiberg

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W. T. Stace

British philosopher