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THE NEW

SCHAFF-HERZOG

ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE




Editor-in-Chief

SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, D.D., LL.D.



Editor-in-Chief

of

Supplementary Volumes

LEFFERTS A. LOETSCHER, Ph.D., D.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY

PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY






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THE NEW

SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF

RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE

EDITED BY

SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, D.D., LL.D.
(Editor-in-Chief)

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF

CHARLES COLEBROOK SHERMAN

AND

GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE, M.A.
(Associate Editors)

 

AND THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENT EDITORS

 

CLARENCE AUGUSTINE BECKWITH, D.D.

        (Department of Systematic Theology)


HENRY KING CARROLL, LL.D.

        (Department of Minor Denominations)


JAMES FRANCIS DRISCOLL, D.D.

        (Department of Liturgics and Religious Orders)

JAMES FREDERIC McCURDY, PH.D., LL.D.

        (Department of the Old Testament)


HENRY SYLVESTER NASH, D.D.

        (Department of the New Testament)


ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D.

        (Department of Church History)

 

FRANK HORACE VIZETELLY, F.S.A.

(Department of Pronunciation and Typography)

 


VOLUME II
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EDITORS


SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, D.D., LL.D.

(Editor-in-Chief.)

Professor of Church History, New York University.


ASSOCIATE EDITORS


CHARLES COLEBROOK SHERMAN

Editor in Biblical Criticism and Theology on "The New International Encyclopedia," New York.

GEORGE WILLLAM GILMORE, M.A.

New York, Formerly Professor of Biblical History and Lecturer on Comparative Religion, Bangor Theological Seminary.


DEPARTMENT EDITORS, VOLUME II.


CLARENCE AUGUSTINE BECKWITH, D.D.

(Department of Systematic Theology.)

Professor of Systematic Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary.


HENRY KING CARROLL, LL.D.

(Department of Minor Denominations.)

One of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York.


JAMES FRANCIS DRISCOLL, D.D.

(Department of Liturgies and Religious Orders.)

President of St. Joseph's Seminary, Yonkers, N. Y.


HUBERT EVANS, Ph.D.

(Office Editor.)

Formerly of the Editorial Staff of the "Encyclopeadia Britannica" Company, New York City.

JAMES FREDERICK McCURDY, Ph.D., LL.D.

(Department of the Old Testament.)

Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Toronto.


HENRY SYLVESTER NASH, D.D.

(Department of the New Testament.)

Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass.


ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D.

(Department of Church History.)

Professor of Church History, Baylor Theological Seminary (Baylor University), Waco, Tex.


FRANK HORACE VIZETELLY, F.S.A

(Department of Pronunciation and Typography.)

Managing Editor of the STANDARD DICTIONARY, etc., New York City.



CONTRIBUTORS AND COLLABORATORS, VOLUME II.


ERNST CHRISTIAN ACHELIS, Th.D.,

Professor of Practical Theology, University of Marburg.


SAMUEL JAMES ANDREWS (†), D.D.,

Late Pastor of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Hartford, Conn.


CARL FRANKLIN ARNOLD, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, Evangelical Theological Faculty, University of Breslau.


FERENCZ BALOGH,

Professor of Church History, Reformed Theological Academy, Debreczin, Hungary.


EDUARD BARDE (†),

Late Professor of New Testament Exegesis, School of Theology, Geneva.


HERMANN BARGE, Ph.D.,

Gymnasial Professor in Leipsic.


SAMUEL JUNE BARROWS, D.D,

Corresponding Secretary of the Prison Association of New York.


JOHANNES BELSHEIM,

Pastor Emeritus in Christiania, Norway.


KARL BENRATH, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Königsberg.


IMMANUEL GUSTAF ADOLF BENZINGER, Ph.D., Th.Lic.,

Formerly Privat-docent in Old Testament Theology, University of Berlin, Member of the Executive Committee of the German Society for the Exploration of Palestine, Jerusalem.


SAMUEL BERGER (†), D.D.,

Late Librarian to the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Paris.


CARL ALBRECHT BERNOULLI, Th.Lic.,

Professor in Berlin.


CARL BERTHEAU, Th.D.,

President of the Society for Innere Mission, and Pastor of St. Michael's Church, Hamburg.


WILLIBALD BEYSCHLAG (†), Th.D.,

Late Professor of Theology, University of Halle.


AMY GASTON BONET-MAURY, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Church History, Independent School of Divinity, Paris.


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GOTTLIEB NATHANAEL BONWETSCH, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Göttingen.


FRIEDRICH BOSSE, Ph.D., Th.Lic.,

Extraordinary Professor of Theology, University of Greifswald.


GUSTAF BOSSERT, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Pastor Emeritus, Stuttgart.


JOHANNES FRIEDRICH THEODOR BRIEGER, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Leipsic.


CHARLES AUGUSTUS BRIGGS, D.D., Litt.D.,

Professor of Theological Encyclopedia and Symbolics, Union Theological Seminary, New York.


FRANTS PEDER WILLIAM BUHL, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Copenhagen.


KARL BURGER (†), Th.D.,

Late Supreme Consistorial Councilor, Munich.


WALTER CASPARI, Ph.D., Th.Lic.,

Professor of Practical Theology, Pedagogics, and Didactics, and University Preacher, University of Erlangen.


JACQUES EUGÈNE CHOISY, Th.D.,

Pastor in Geneva, Switzerland.


FERDINAND COHRS, Th.Lic.,

Consistorial Councilor, Ilfeld, Hanover.


ALEXIS IRENÉE DU PONT COLEMAN, M.A.,

Instructor in English, College of the City of New York.


GUSTAF HERMAN DALMAN, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Leipsic, and President of the German Evangelical Archeological Institute, Jerusalem.


SAMUEL MARTIN DEUTSCH, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Berlin.


FRANZ WILHELM DIBELIUS, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Supreme Consistorial Councilor, City Superintendent and Pastor of the Kreuzkirche, Dresden.


JAMES FRANCIS DRISCOLL, D.D.,

President of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonkers, N. Y.


HENRY OTIS DWIGHT, LL.D.,

Recording Secretary of the American Bible Society, Coeditor of the “Encyclopedia of Missions,” New York.


EMIL EGLI, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Zurich.


DAVID ERDMANN (†), Th.D.,

Late Professor of Church History, Evangelical Theological Faculty, University of Breslau.


ALFRED ERICHSON (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Professor of Theology, University of Strasburg.


CARL FEY, Ph.D.,

Pastor at Cösseln, near Halle.


JOHN FOX, D.D.,

Corresponding Secretary of the American Bible Society, New York.


EMIL ALBERT FRIEDBERG, Dr.Jur.,

Professor of Ecclesiastical, Public and German Law, University of Leipsic.



THEODOR GEROLD, Th.D.,

President of the Consistory, Strasburg.


GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE, M.A.,

Formerly Lecturer on Comparative Religion, Bangor Theological Seminary, Associate Editor of the SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA.


WILHELM GLAMANN,

Pastor at Siebeneichen, near Löwenberg, Prussia.


WILHELM GOETZ, Ph.D.,

Honorary Professor of Geography, Technische Hochschule, and Professor, Military Academy, Munich.


CASPAR RENÉ GREGORY, Ph.D., Dr.Jur., Th.D., D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Leipsic.


PAUL GRUENBERG, Th.Lic.,

Pastor in Strasburg.


GEORG GRUETZMACHER, Ph.D., Th.Lic.,

Extraordinary Professor of Church History and of the New Testament, University of Heidelberg.


REINHOLD GRUNDEMANN, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Pastor at Mörz, near Belzig, Prussia.


HERMANN GUTHE, Th.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Leipsic.


ADOLF HARNACK, M.D., Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Berlin, and General Director of the Royal Library, Berlin.


ALBERT HAUCK, Ph.D., Dr.Jur., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Leipsic, Editor-in-Chief of the HAUCK-HERZOG REALENCYKLOPÄDIE.


HERMAN HAUPT, Ph.D.,

Professor and Director of the University Library, Giessen.


JOHANNES HAUSSLEITER, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of the New Testament, University of Greifswald.


CARL FRIEDRICH GEORG HEINRICI, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Leipsic.


EDGAR HENNECKE, Th.Lic.,

Pastor at Betheln, Hanover.


HERMANN HERING, Th.D.,

Professor of Practical Theology, University of Halle.


MAX HEROLD, Th.D.,

Dean, Neustadt-an-der-Aisch, Bavaria, Editor of Siona.


JOHANN JAKOB HERZOG (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Professor of Reformed Theology, University of Erlangen, Founder of the HAUCK-HERZOG REALENCYKLOPÄDIE.


ALFRED HEGLER (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Professor of Church History, University of Tübingen.


JOHANNES HESSE,

Former Editor of the Evangelisches Missions-Magazin and President of the Publishing Society at Calw, Württemberg.

PAUL HINSCHIUS (†), LL.D.,

Late Professor of Ecclesiastical Law, University of Berlin.


HERMANN WILHELM HEINRICH HOELSCHER, Th.D.,

Pastor of the Nikolaikirche, Leipsic, Editor of the Allgemeine Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchenzeitung and of the Theologisches Literaturblatt.


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KARL HOLL, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Berlin.


ALFRED JEREMIAS, Ph.D., Th.Lic.,

Pastor of the Lutherkirche, Leipsic.


MARTIN KAEHLER, Th.D.,

Professor of Dogmatics and New Testament Exegesis, University of Halle.


ADOLF KAMPHAUSEN, Th.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Bonn.


PETER GUSTAF KAWERAU, Th.D.,

Consistorial Councilor, Professor of Practical Theology, and University Preacher, University of Breslau.


RUDOLF KITTEL, Ph.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Leipsic.


FRIEDRICH HERMANN THEODOR KOLDE, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Erlangen.


HERMANN GUSTAF EDUARD KRUEGER, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Giessen.


JOHANNES WILHELM KUNZE, Ph.D.,

Professor of Systematic and Practical Theology, University of Greifswald.


L. A. VAN LANGERAAD, Ph.D.,

Lekkerkerk, Holland.


LUDWIG LEMME, Th.D.,

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Heidelberg.


EDUARD LEMPP, Ph.D.,

Superintendent of the Royal Orphan Asylum, Stuttgart.


AUGUST LESKIEN, Ph.D.,

Professor of Slavonic Languages, University of Leipsic.


FRIEDRICH ARMIN LOOFS, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Halle.


ANDERS HERMAN LUNDSTRÖM, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, Royal University of Upsala, Sweden.


JAMES FREDERICK McCURDY, Ph.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Toronto.


PHILIPP MEYER, Th.D.,

Supreme Consistorial Councilor and Member of the Royal Consistory, Hanover.


CARL THEODOR MIRBT, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Marburg.


ERNST FRIEDRICH KARL MUELLER, Th.D.,

Professor of Reformed Theology, University of Erlangen.


GEORG MUELLER, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Councilor for Schools, Leipsic.


JOSEF MUELLER, Th.D.,

Pastor in Ebersdorf, Reuss.


NIKOLAUS MUELLER, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Extraordinary Professor of Christian Archeology, University of Berlin.


CHRISTOF EBERHARD NESTLE, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor in the Theological Seminary at Maulbronn, Württemberg.


KARL JOHANNES NEUMANN, Ph.D.,

Professor of the History of Art, University of Kiel.


ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Church History, Baylor Theological Seminary (Baylor University), Waco, Tex.


JULIUS NEY, Th.D.,

Supreme Consistorial Councilor in Speyer, Bavaria.


FREDERIK CHRISTIAN NIELSEN (†), Th.D.,

Late Bishop of Aalborg, Denmark.


FRIEDRICH AUGUST NITZSCH (†), Ph.D.,

Late Professor of Theology, University of Kiel.


HANS CONRAD VON ORELLI, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and History of Religion, University of Basel.


MARGARET BLOODGOOD PEEKE,

Inspectress-General of the Martinist Order for America.


CHARLES PFENDER,

Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Paris.


BERNHARD PICK, Ph.D., D.D.,

Pastor of the First German Evangelical Lutheran Church,

Newark, N. J.


FREDERICK DUNGLISON POWER, LL.D.,

Pastor of the Garfield Memorial Church, Washington, D. C.


WILLIAM PRICE,

Formerly Instructor in French, Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, Conn.


FRANZ PRAETORIUS, Ph.D.,

Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Halle.


GEORG CHRISTIAN RIETSCHEL, Th.D.,

Professor of Practical Theology and University Preacher, University of Leipsic.


SIEGFRIED RIETSCHEL, Dr.Jur.,

Professor of German Law, University of Tübingen.


HENDRIK CORNELIUS ROGGE (†), Th.D.,

Late Professor of History, University of Amsterdam.


EUGEN SACHSSE, Th.D.,

University Preacher and Professor of Practical Theology in the Evangelical Theological Faculty, University of Bonn.


DAVID SCHLEY SCHAFF, D.D.,

Professor of Church History, Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa.


PHILIP SCHAFF (†), D.D., LL.D.,

Late Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York, Founder of the SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA.


REINHOLD SCHMID, Th.Lic.,

Pastor at Oberholzheim, Württemberg.


RICHARD KARL BERNHARD SCHMIDT, Dr.Jur.,

Professor of Jurisprudence and Civil and Criminal Procedure, University of Freiburg.


JOHANN SCHNEIDER,

Pastor at Neckar-Steinach. Hesse


THEODOR SCHOTT (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Librarian and Professor of Theology, University of Stuttgart.


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JOHANN FRIEDRICH RITTER VON SCHULTE, Dr.Jur.,

Professor of German Ecclesiastical Law and of the History of Law, University of Bonn.


VICTOR SCHULTZE, Th.D.,

Professor of Church History and Christian Archeology, University of Greifswald.


HANS SCHULZ, Ph.D.,

Gymnasial Professor at Steglitz, near Berlin.


LUDWIG SCHULZE, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Rostock.


OTTO SEEBASS, Ph.D.,

Educator in Leipsic, Germany.


REINHOLD SEEBERG, Th.D.,

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Berlin.


EMIL SEHLING, Dr.Jur.,

Professor of Ecclesiastical and Commercial Law, University of Erlangen.


FRIEDRICH ANTON EMIL SIEFFERT,

Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Dogmatics and New Testament Exegesis, University of Bonn.


EMIL ELIAS STEINMEYER, Ph.D.,

Professor of German Language and Literature, University of Erlangen.


GEORG EDUARD STEITZ (†), Th.D.,

Late Pastor in Frankfort-on-the-Main.


ALFRED STOECKIUS, Ph.D.,

Astor Library, New York.


HERMANN LEBERECHT STRACK, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Extraordinary Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Semitic Languages, University of Berlin.


PAUL TSCHACKERT, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Professor of Church History, University of Göttingen.


JOHANN GERHARD UHLHORN (†), Th.D.,

Late Consistorial Councilor, Hanover.


MARVIN RICHARDSON VINCENT, D.D.,

Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Criticism, Union Theological Seminary, New York.


WILHELM VOGT (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Professor of Old Testament Exegesis, University of Rostock.


STACY REUBEN WARBURTON,

Assistant Editor of The Baptist Missionary Magazine, Boston.


BENJAMIN BRECKINRIDGE WARFIELD, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Didactic and Polemical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary.


AUGUST WILHELM WERNER, Th.D.,

Pastor Primartus, Guben, Prussia.


FRANCIS METHERALL WHITLOCK,

Pastor of the Bethlehem Congregational Church, Cleveland, O.


RICHARD PAUL WUELKER, Ph.D.,

Professor of English, University of Leipsic.


AUGUST WUENSCHE, Ph.D., Th.D.,

Titular Professor in Dresden.


THEOLDOR ZAHN, Th.D., Litt.D.,

Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Introduction, University of Erlangen.


HEINRICH ZIMMER, Ph.D.,

Professor of Celtic Philology, University of Berlin.


OTTO ZOECKLER (†), Ph.D., Th.D.,

Late Professor of Church History, University of Greifswald.


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