HAUCK, ALBERT. - Protestant Church historian, b. at Wassertrüdingen (Franconia) on 9 Dec. 1845, d. at Leipzig on 7 Apr. 1918. Parish priest at Frankenheim (1874-78), professor of Church history at Erlangen (1878-89) then at Leipzig, where he was also director of the Institute of Christian Archaeology.
He began to reveal himself as a historian of great worth with Tertullians Leben und Schriften (Erlangen 1877), which earned him the professorial chair; but above all with the Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, which remained unfinished (6 vols., the last of them posthumous, edited by H. Böhmer [Leipzig 1887-1920], which extended down to the times of Louis the Bavarian); a work of vast investigation, of critical study of the sources, of fine syntheses; which is harmed, however, by a lack of serenity in judging the action, especially the political action, of the papacy. He also occupied himself successfully with the third edition of the Realencyclopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (24 vols., Leipzig 1896-1913), for which he accepted the cooperation of writers of all tendencies. Also worthy of note: Die Entstehung des Christustypus in der abendländischen Kunst (Heidelberg 1880); Die Entstehung der bischöflichen Fürstenmacht (Leipzig 1891); Der Gedanke der päpstlichen Weltherrschaft bis auf Bonifaz VIII. (ibid. 1904). He edited the fourth edition of H. Schmid's Dogmengeschichte (Leipzig 1887).
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