 thumb|150px|friedrich august gottreu tholuck friedrich august gottreu tholuck (march 30, 1799 â june 10, 1877), known as august tholuck, was a german protestant theologian and church leader. ==biography== tholuck was born at breslau, and educated at the gymnasium and university there. he distinguished himself by his ability to learn languages. a love of oriental languages and literature led him to exchange the university of breslau for that of berlin, in order to study to greater advantage, and there he was received into the house of the orientalist heinrich friedrich von diez (1750â1817). he was introduced to pietistic circles in berlin, and came under the influence of baron hans ernst von kottwitz, who became his "spiritual father," and of the historian neander. before deciding on the career of theological professor, he had in view that of a missionary in the east. meanwhile he was feeling the influence to a certain degree of the romantic school, and of schleiermacher and g. w. f. hegel too, though he never sounded the depths of their systems. at length, in his twenty-first year, he finally decided to adopt the academical calling. in 1821 he was privatdozent and in 1823 became professor extraordinarius of theology in berlin, though he was at the same time active in the work of home and foreign missions. he lectured on the old and new testaments, theology, apologetics and the history of the church in the 18th century. in 1821 appeared his first work, sufismus, sive theosophia persarum pantheistica; following the same line of study he published blÃ¼tensammlung aus der morgenlandischen mystik (1825) and speculative trinitÃ¤tslehre des spÃ¤teren orients (1826). his well-known essay on the nature and moral influence of heathenism (1822) was published by neander, with high commendation, in his denkwÃ¼rdigkeiten; and his commentary on the epistle to the romans (1824) secured him a foremost place amongst the most suggestive, if not the most accurate, biblical interpreters of that time. another work, soon translated into all the principal european languages, die wahre weihe des zweiflers (1823), the outcome of his own religious history, obtained for him the permanent position of the modern pietistic apologist of evangelical christianity. in 1825, with the aid of the prussian government, he visited the libraries of england and the netherlands, and on his return was appointed (in 1826) professor ordinarius of theology at the university of halle, the centre of german rationalism, where he afterwards became preacher and member of the supreme consistorial council of t
1799_births 1877_deaths German_Protestant_theologians Humboldt_University_of_Berlin_faculty Martin_Luther_University_of_Halle-Wittenberg_faculty People_from_WrocAaw People_from_the_Province_of_Silesia