Education
He studied theology at the universities of Leipzig, Tübingen and Göttingen, and received his doctorate from Leipzig in 1881.
historian theologian university professor
He studied theology at the universities of Leipzig, Tübingen and Göttingen, and received his doctorate from Leipzig in 1881.
As a student, Adolf von Harnack (Leipzig) and Albrecht Ritschl (Göttingen) were important influences to his career. From 1888 to 1926 he was a professor of church history at the University of Halle, where in 1907/08 he served as rector. Concurrent with his work at the university, from 1890 to 1925, he held title of Consistorialrat in the city of Magdeburg.