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Frederick Augustus Rauch was born on July 27, 1806 in Kirchbracht, Prussia, the second son of Friederike (Haderman) and Heinrich Rauch, a minister of the Reformed Church. He was fond of music and became an accomplished pianist.
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Frederick Augustus Rauch was born on July 27, 1806 in Kirchbracht, Prussia, the second son of Friederike (Haderman) and Heinrich Rauch, a minister of the Reformed Church. He was fond of music and became an accomplished pianist.
He graduated from the University of Marburg, afterward studied at Giessen and Heidelberg.
In Giessen he became Privat Docent and later Professor Extraordinarius, and in Heidelberg in 1831 he was on the eve of being appointed as Professor Ordinarius in the department of metaphysics. His range of studies included philology, philosophy, and theology.
At Heidelberg he came under the powerful influence of Karl Daub, who was then at the height of his brilliant career, the acknowledged head of a school that undertook to reconcile theology and philosophy.
The Zeitgeist of a tumultuous period in Prussian history also influenced him as a youth. After a public expression of sympathy for the political fraternities the government was trying to suppress, professional advancement became impossible for him. Coming to America as a political refugee in 1831 he first settled in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he gained a livelihood by giving music lessons and by teaching German in Lafayette College.
In June 1832 he became principal of the Hochschule connected with the theological seminary of the German Reformed Church at York, Pennsylvania. In the autumn of the same year he was ordained to the ministry and elected professor of Biblical literature in the seminary. His salary for both positions was six hundred dollars; he refused a larger amount because, as he said, he had yet to prove his fitness. As credentials of qualification for this professorship he submitted a list of his publications in Europe consisting of nine titles, two of which were written in Latin. One worthy of special mention was Vorlesungen über Goethes Faust (1830).
On the removal, 1835-37, of the literary institutions from York to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, he became organizer and first president of Marshall College in 1836. The groundwork was laid for the doctrinal system known as "Mercersburg theology, " which in the following years profoundly affected the trend of religious belief and worship in the United States. There he, a German Zwinglian, ably abetted by his colleague and successor, John W. Nevin, developed his dream of an Anglo-American type of philosophy as an essentially complete system, whose keynote was the spiritual interpretation of the universe.
In 1840 he published his Psychology or a View of the Human Soul, including Anthropology. One of his reasons for writing it was "to give the science of man a direct bearing upon other sciences, and especially upon religion and theology". As far as he knew, this was the first attempt to unite German and American mental philosophy.
The book met with instant approval. Orestes A. Brownson hailed it as a work of genius. Its extensive and continued popularity as a textbook in the schools and colleges is evidence of its merit. His untimely death prevented the publication of his teachings in ethics and esthetics as he had planned. They were, however, left in the form of lectures copied by his students. A volume of his sermons appeared posthumously under the title of The Inner Life of the Christian, edited by E. V. Gerhart, 1856.
He died at Mercersburg and was buried there. Later his remains were transferred to Lancaster and with fitting ceremonial buried in the college burial plot.
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In 1833 he was married to Phebe Bathiah Moore of Morristown, New Jersey.