Johann Jakob Herzog

Johann Jakob Herzog (12 September 1805, Basel – 30 September 1882, Erlangen), was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.

He studied theology in Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830. From 1835 to 1846 he was a professor of historical theology at the Academy in Lausanne. Afterwards, he served as a professor in Halle, and eventually (1854), he settled at Erlangen as a professor of church history.^[1]

He is remembered for his writings on the history of the Reformation (Zwingli, John Calvin, Johannes Oecolampadius), and for his studies of the Waldensian Church.^[1]

He was author of the "Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche" (1854–1868, 22 volumes), of which a new edition, in collaboration with Gustav Leopold Plitt and Albert Hauck, was published from 1877 to 1888 (18 volumes). From 1896 to 1913, Hauck released a third edition of the encyclopedia (24 volumes; Vol 1-22, 1896-1909, with two later supplements).^[2][3] Based on the encyclopedia's third edition, the "New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" was subsequently published in English from 1908 to 1914 (13 volumes).^[4]

Other writings by Herzog

• Das Leben Johannes Oekolampads und die Reformation der Kirche zu Basel, 1843.^[5]
• Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren, 1853.^[6]
• Abriss der gesammten Kirchengeschichte (3 vols, 1876–1882, 2nd ed., G Koffmane, Leipzig, 1890–1892).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.