Quotes:Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu

Zirkoff, Boris

Tholuck, Friedrich August Gottreu (1799-1877). German Protestant divine, b. at Breslau, March 30, 1799; d. at Halle, June 10, 1877. Studied at Breslau and Berlin, where he was received into the house of the Orientalist Heinrich Fr. von Diez (1750–1817); came under the influence of the pietist Baron Ernst von Kottwitz (1757–1843), a Moravian Brother, who became his "spiritual father," and of the historian Neander. Privat-docent, 1821; prof. extraord. of theology at Berlin, 1823. As a result of his work, Die Wahre Weihe des Zweiflers, 1823, secured the position of Pietistic Apologist of Evangelical Christianity. In 1825, was librarian in England and Holland. Appointed prof. ordinarius of theology at Halle. Became there member of Superior Consistorial Council, and succeeded in changing the character of the University's theology. Was greatly beloved in the Protestant world, and considered among the foremost preachers of his time. He was a man of enormous literary output; his theology was eclectic, deriving elements from classical pietists as well as from Hegel, Schleiermacher and Neander. Chief works: Stunden christlicher Andacht, Hamburg, 1839; 8th ed., 1870.—Geschichte des Rationalismus. Berlin: Wiegandt und Grieben, 1865.—Die Propheten und ihre Weissagungen, 1866.—*Commentatio de vi quam graeca philosophia in theologiam tum Muhammedanorum tum Judaeorum exercuerit.—Collected Works, 1863–72, in 11 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 477

Tholuck, Friedrich A. G. (1799–1877). *Commentatio de vi quam graeca philosophia in theologiam tum Muhammedanorum tum Judaeorum exercuerit. See Vol. VIII, p. 477 of the present Series for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 457