HASE, hiil'ze, KARL ALFRED VON: German Prot estant; b. at Jena July 12,1842. He was educated at the university of his native city (Ph.D., 1865), and also studied at Rome and Geneva. After being court deacon at Weimar from 1865 to 1870, he was divisional chaplain in the Franco-Prussian War, and was then divisional pastor at Hanover for five years (1871-76). From 1876 to 1889 he was chief military chaplain and consistorial councilor at Königsberg, and from 1889 to 1893 was garrison chaplain and court -preacher at -Potsdam. Since 1893 he has been consistorial councilor at Breslau, and also honorary professor of practical theology at the university of the same city since 1896. In 1904 he was created a supreme consistorial councilor. He has published: Lutherbriefe (Leipsic, 1867); Wormser Lutherbuch (Mainz, 1868); Sebastian Franck von Word, der Schwarmgeist (Leipsic, 1869); Die Bedeutung des Geschichtlichen in der Religion (1874); Herzog Albrecht van Preussen und sein Hofprediger (1879); Die Hausandaeht (Gotha,i891); Christi Armut unser Reichtum (a volume of sermons; Berlin, 1893); Unsre Hauschronik: Geschichte der Familie Hase in vier Jahrhunderten (Leipsic, 1898); and Neutestamentliche Parallelen zu buddhistischen Quellen (Gross-Liehterfelde, 1905).
HASE, KARL AUGUST VON: German Lutheran theologian; b. at Niedersteinbach, near Penig (11 m. n.w. of Chemnitz), Aug. 25, 1800; d. in Jena Jan. 3, 1890. The son of a country pastor, he attended the gymnasium at Altenburg, which he left to enter the University at Leipsic (1818). He matriculated at first, however, as law student, yet turned his attention from the start chiefly to phi losophy and theology, preaching at the close of his first semester. In 1821 he entered Erlangen, where he was deeply influenced by Schelling and G. H. von Schubert (qq.v.). He was obliged to leave the university the next year, as he was suspected of complicity in the political plots of the student asso ciations. In 1823 he qualified as lecturer on theology and philosophy at Tübingen. Soon afterward he was a political prisoner at Hohenasperg for eleven months (1824-25). In Oct., 1826, he went to Leipsic, where he became a lecturer in the philo sophical faculty, but in a few years was called to Jena as extraordinary professor. Before his removal thither (July, 1830) he traveled in Italy with his friend, Hermann Hartel, whose sister, Pauline, he married on his return. The rest of his life he spent
in Jena, declining many honorable calls to other universities. He became full professor in 1836, and soon ranked as one of the most highly esteemed teachers and became famous as an author. He served five times as vice-rector (1838, 1847, 1855, 1863, and 1871). His interests were turned chiefly, but not exclusively, toward church history. He relieved his labors by frequent journeys, especially to Rome, which he visited seventeen times, the last time in 1882. There he acquired the intimate acquaintance with the Roman Catholic religion shown in so many of his works. High honors were given to him at his golden jubilee; he was created doctor of law, presented with the freedom of the city, granted cross of the Saxon Household Order, together with the hereditary nobility, and appointed privy councilor. He delivered his last lecture on July 23, 1883; but retained his mental alertness till his last years, and prepared his lectures on church history for the press.
The most striking thing about Hase's work is the great diversity of the subjects and his ability in using the sources to produce an artistic treatment of a theme. His style was original and alluring; but in his later years was marked by so great an effort for conciseness as even to violate the laws of language. His writings require not only an attentive reader, but one who can read between the lines. He has a breadth of outline, an acuteness of observation, and an art of delineation that give life to the figures of history. In theology he was no pioneer like Schleiermacher, though he shared Schleiermacher'3 vital conception of religion, .nor like Baur, whom, however, he could fully appreciate. He never tried to cultivate unbroken ground, though not shrinking from the drudgery of scientific investigation; therefore he seldom contributed to periodicals, and wrote but few reviews. He belonged to no party nor school, but felt himself to be a theologian, who dared to examine freely, bound by no sacredness of the letter, standing for "the scientific investigation of the Gospel, an enlightened Christianity recognizing itself as truth in the eternal laws of the spirit, as opposed to the popular faith supported by external authority."
Among his writings may be mentioned: Des alten.Pfarrers Testament (Tübingen, 1824), a treatise on the Johannean love, in the form of a romantic story; Lehrbuch der evangelischen Dogmatik (Stuttgart, 1826); Die Proselyten (Tübingen, 1827); Gnosis oder protestantisch-evangelischen Glaubenslehre (3 vols., Leipsic, 1827-29); Hutterus redivivus (1829), a compendium of Lutheran dogma; Leben Jesu (1829); Kirchengeschichte (1834; 12th edition, 1900; Eng. transl. from 7th Germ. ed., Hist. of the Christian Church, New York, 1855); Anti-Roehr (1837), a polemic against rationalism; Die beiden Embischofe (1839); Neue Propheten (1851); Franz von Assisi (1856); Das geistliche Schauspiel (1858; Eng. transl., Miracle Plays and Sacred Dramas, London, 1880); Handbuch der protestantischen Polemik gegen die römisch-katholische Kirche (1862; 7th edition, 1900; Eng. transl., Handbook to the Controversy with Rome, 2 vols., London, 1906); Caierina von Siena (1864); Ideale and Irrtiimer (1871); Geschichte Jesu (1875; Eng. transl. from 3u and 4th
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Bibliography: F. Nippold, Karl van Have, Geddchtn11rede,
Berlin, 1890; R. A. Lipsius, Zur Brinnerung an . . . K. A. von Hase, ib. 1890; K. A. Base, Unare Hamchronik: Geschichte der Familie Hose, Leipsic, 1898; R. Bfrkner, Karl von Hass, ib. 1900; and the autobiographic details in vol. xi. of the collected Werke, fit sup.
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