Albert Heinrich Friedrich Stephan Ernst Louis Hauck (9 December 1845,

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– 7 April 1918,

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) was a German

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and

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. Hauck began studying theology in 1864 in

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, and then from 1866 in

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, where he was taught by

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, the father of the source and methods-based German historiography; Hauck later commented that von Ranke was the greatest man he'd ever known. He passed the state exam in 1868 in

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. In 1870 he became

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, moved to Feldkirchen in 1871, and in 1875 was appointed

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for the

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of Frankenheim. Since 1878 Hauck taught church history and

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at the

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, and in 1889 was appointed professor of church history at the

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. His most important publication is the ''Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands'' ("Church history of Germany," 1887–1920), a standard reference in the field. He also edited and published the third edition of the '' Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''.

Literature

* * * Martin Teubner: ''Historismus und Kirchengeschichtsschreibung. Leben und Werk Albert Haucks (1845–1918) bis zu seinem Wechsel nach Leipzig 1889.'' Göttingen 2008. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hauck, Albert 19th-century German Catholic theologians Historians of the Catholic Church Leipzig University faculty University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty 1845 births 1918 deaths German male non-fiction writers 19th-century male writers