Education
Herzog studied theology at the University of Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830.
historian theologian university professor
Herzog studied theology at the University of Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830.
In 1835-1846 he was a professor of historical theology at the Academy in Lausanne. Afterwards he served as a professor in Halle, and eventually (1854), he settled at Erlangen as a professor of church history. Herzog was author of the "Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche" (1853–1868, 22 volumes), of which a new edition, in collaboration with Gustav Leopold Plitt and Albert Hauck, was published from 1877 to 1888 (18 volumes).
From 1896 to 1913, Hauck released a third edition of the encyclopedia (24 volumes.
Volume(s) 1-22, 1896-1909, with two later supplements). Based on the encyclopedia"s third edition, the "New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge" was subsequently published in English from 1908 to 1914 (13 volumes).
Das Leben Johannes Oekolampads und die Reformation der Kirche zu Basel, 1843. Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren, 1853.
Abriss der gesammten Kirchengeschichte (3 vols, 1876–1882, 2nd ed, G Koffmane, Leipzig, 1890–1892).