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Johann Georg Hamann
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Born August 27, 1730 • Russia
Died June 21, 1788 (aged 57) • Münster • Germany
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
Rudolf Bultmann
German theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Ferdinand Christian Baur
German theologian
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
Isaak August Dorner
German theologian
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Paul Tillich
American theologian and philosopher
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian
Martin Bucer, medal by Friedrich Hagenauer, 1543; in the Archives and Library of the City of Strasbourg.
Martin Bucer
Protestant religious reformer
Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack
German theologian and church historian
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German theologian and physician
Clauberg, engraving by J. Wielant
Johann Clauberg
German philosopher and theologian
Schwenckfeld, detail from a portrait by an unknown artist, 1556; in the Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.
Kaspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig
German theologian
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar

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