Georg Philipp Eduard Huschke (26 June 18017 February 1886) was a German jurist and authority on church government. He was born at Hannoversch Münden, a town in

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, Germany. In 1817 Huschke went to

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to study law. He was encouraged by

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to go to Berlin, but returned to Göttingen and established himself as

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, lecturing on the orations of

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, on Gaius and the history of law. Later he was appointed to a professorship in

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. In 1827 he accepted the position of professor of

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in Breslau. Soon after his arrival in Breslau he became interested in the dissension caused by the Evangelical Union which were forced upon the orthodox Old Lutherans by the state rulers, and took a prominent part in the debates. Huschke tried to solve the problem practically as soon as he came to Breslau. This dispute led to the creation of the independent Lutheran Church, and Huschke, as the defender of its rights, was appointed head of the supreme church college. Huschke was intensely hostile to the

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, which he saw the realization of a demoniac power. He was an eager student of the apocalypse. The fruit of his studies was a work entitled ''Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln'' (Dresden, 1860). His ideas on church government were laid down in ''Die streitigen Lehren von der Kirche, dem Kirchenamt, dem Kirchenregiment und der Kirchenregierung'' (Leipzig, 1863). Huschke also published many important writings on law. Huschke died at Breslau on 7 February 1886.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huschke, Georg Philipp Eduard 1801 births 1886 deaths People from Hann. Münden German Lutherans Jurists from Lower Saxony Lutheran writers German male writers 19th-century Lutheran theologians