Heinrich Hansen (theologian), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Heinrich Hansen (theologian)
- Heinrich Hansen (13 October 1861 – 17 April 1940) was a German Lutheran theologian and the father of the Lutheran High Church movement in Germany. Hansen was born in Klockries near Lindholm (in present-day Nordfriesland) as a son of a teacher.
- In Kiel and Erlangen he studied theology, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and in particular the Old Testament under August Klostermann.
- He worked since 1887 as a pastor in Schleswig-Holstein: in Reinfeld, Lindholm, on the island Pellworm, in Kropp and in Olderup near Husum. Hansen wrote Latin hymns and worked on a Low German Bible translation and published a Low German hymnal.
- By the study of the old Lutheran theologians, particularly Martin Chemnitz, and the Roman Catholic theologian Johann Adam Möhler, he came to an Evangelical Catholic view about church.
- In the Reformation jubilee year of 1917—exactly 100 years after Claus Harms— Hansen published 95 theses (Stimuli et Clavi) in Latin and German, as a sharp criticism against contemporary Protestantism.
- His theses influenced the foundation of "Hochkirchliche Vereinigung" in October 1918.
- Hansen is well known as a co-founder and the first chairman of Hochkirchliche Vereinigung.
- He died in Breklum.
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