Adolf Hausrath (13 January 18372 August 1909), a

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, was born at

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Biography

He was educated at

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and

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, where he became

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in 1861, professor extraordinary in 1867 and ordinary professor in 1872. He was a disciple of the

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and a strong

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. His scholarship was sound and his style vigorous. Hausrath died on 3 August 1909 in

.Hausrath, Adolf (Pseudonym George Taylor)
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, , S. 126 f.

Works

Among other works he wrote ''Der Apostel Paulus'' (1865), ''Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte'' (1868–1873, 4 vols; Eng. trans.), '' D. F. Strauss und die Theologie seiner Zeit'' (1876-1878, 2 vols), and lives of

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(2 vols, 1902), and Luther (1904). Hausrath grab

Under the pseudonym George Taylor he wrote several historical romances, especially ''

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'' (1880), which quickly ran through five editions, and is the story of a soul "which courted death because the objective restraints of faith had been lost." ''Klytia'' (1883) was a 16th-century story, ''Samen'' (1884) a fictional work of 19th century Germany, ''Jetta'' (1885) a tale of the great immigrations, and ''Elfriede'' "a romance of the Rhine".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hausrath, Adolf 19th-century German Protestant theologians Academic staff of Heidelberg University Clergy from Karlsruhe 1837 births 1909 deaths German male non-fiction writers 19th-century German male writers