HASE, "KARI, Armusr, an eminent living theologian of Germany, was b. at Stein bach, in Saxony, Aug. 25, 1800, and, after leaving Altenburg gymnasium, studied theology at Leipsic, Erlangen; and Tubingen, For taking part in 'the firirschenselffifteri, lie was, after a tedious 'trial, Confined. fOr five'months the of Holicnasperg.
In 1829, after having been prirat-docent for a year, he was made extraordinary professor of philosophy in Leipsic, where his lectures on dogmatics and the life of 'Christ proved especially attractive. He was, indeed, the first critical biographer of Christ who decidedly rose above the old rationalistic conception of Him as merely an excellent moral teacher, his Leben Jesu (1829, 5te Aufi. 1865), which appeared six years before Strauss's, having proposed as its aim to show "how Jesus of Nazareth, according to divine des tination, by the free act of his own spirit, and by the opportunities of his time,hecante the Savior of the world." Vindicating equally the rights of the individual religious con sciousness, and the historical importance of the church, he opposes modern super naturalism, as in Die Leipziger Disputation (1827), equally with extreme rationalism, as in Theologische Streitschriften (1834-37), and Die Tubingen Schule (1855). Before the first
year of his professorship in Leipsic was over, Hase was called. as professor of theolooy to Jena, where he still represents the departments of dogmatics and church history principally. His Hatteras Redivivus (1827, 10th ed. 1862) seeks to do justice to the old Lutheran dogmatics in contrast with modern systems, by exhibiting its harmonious completeness, and is in extensive use among German theological students. Besides his Compendium of Universal Church History (1834, 9th ed. 1867), which has been translated into English, and is unsurpassed for its concise pictures of times, men, and systems, Haso has treated special portions of church history in Die beiden Erzbischole, .2Veue Propheten, Franz von Assisi (1856), and Das yeistliche Schauspiel (1858). He has also pub lished several works on ecclesiastical law; an edition of the Libri Symbolici Ecclesia Eva n °dim; Ideate und ,Thrthiimer (1872); etc: