Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge is a religious encyclopedia. It is based on an earlier German encyclopedia, the Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche. Like the Realencyklopädie, it focuses on Christianity from a primarily Protestant point of view.

The Realencyklopädie's publishing history was:

1853–68 – 1st ed. Ed. Johann Jakob Herzog (1805–1882). 22 vols.

c. 1877 – new ed. Ed. Herzog and G.L. Plitt (1836–80).

1896–1909 – 3rd ed. Ed. Albert Hauck (1845–1918). 22 vols.

The Schaff-Herzog's publishing history was:

1882–84 – 1st ed. Ed. Philip Schaff (1819–93). (Based on the first two editions of the Realencyklopädie.)

1891 – 3rd ed. Ed. Albert Hauck.

1908–14 – The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. 13 vols. This was a substantial update, based throughout on the Realencyklopädie, 3rd ed.

2004 – The 1914 text enters the public domain (and thus can be incorporated into any other work).

Christian Classics Ethereal Library has digitized the work and made it available to be read online. Logos Bible Software is also undertaking a digitization project of it.

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New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge by Philip Schaff

• Volume 1, Aachen – Basilians
• Volume 2, Basilica – Chambers
• Volume 3, Chamier – Draendorf
• Volume 4, Draeseke – Goa
• Volume 5, Goar – Innocent
• Volume 6, Innocents – Liudger
• Volume 7, Liutprand – Moralities
• Volume 8, Morality – Petersen
• Volume 9, Petri – Reuchlin
• Volume 10, Reutsch – Son
• Volume 11, Son of Man – Tremellius
• Volume 12, Trench – Zwingli
• Volume 13, Index

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