Philip Schaff papers, 1827 -- 1937

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Series 3: Notes and lectures, 1838 -- 1877

This series is open for research.

0.5 linear feet; 0.5 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains lecture notes, study notes, and one sermon. Schaff's notes on the Baur lecture along with Schaff's Essingen sermon are from his time as a student in Tubingen. The lecture notes on August Neander (Schaff's close mentor) were taken by Schaff as a student at the University of Berlin. The notes on Schleiermacher and Jacobi were possibly acquired during this time as well. (See also Schleiermacher notebook in series 4). This series also includes Schaff's lecture notes from his two earliest teaching assignments, as a private docent at the University of Berlin and as a professor of Mercersberg Seminary. Finally, Schaff's lectures at Union can be read in notes taken by Charles R. Gillett during his time as a UTS student. The lecture notes cover three sections: 1) Theological Encyclopedia, 2) Biblical Introduction to the New Testament, and 3) Exegesis of the Gospel of Mark.

This series is arranged chronologically.



Box 4 Folder 1 Draft-Schaff's first sermon, Essingen, 1838


Box 4 Folder 2 Notes by Philip Schaff on Lectures on Symbolics, by Ferdinand Christian Baur,Tübingen, 1839


Box 4 Folder 3 Notes by Schaff on Lectures by Professor [Johann August Wilhelm] Neander on Modern Church History, Berlin University, 1840


Box 4 Folder 4-6 Notes by Ernst Fink on Schleiermacher, 1842 -- 1843


Box 4 Folder 7 Notes by Schaff on Jacobi, 1842 -- 1843


Box 4 Folder 8 Schaff's Privat-docent Lectures, Berlin, 1842 -- 1844


Box 4 Folder 9 Lecture Notes [from Mercersberg?], 1846


Box 4 Folder 10-11 Notes on Schaff's UTS lectures, by Charles R. Gillett, 1877