Marheineke, PHILIPP CONRAD

Marheineke, PHILIPP CONRAD, Protestant theologian, born at Hildesheim on 1st May 1780, began to teach at Göttingen in 1804, was appointed a theological professor and university preacher at Erlangen in 1805, and subsequently held theological chairs at Heidelberg (from 1807) and Berlin (from 1811). He died on 31st May 1846. After Hegel's death Marheineke was the chief figure among the right wing of that philosopher's disciples. His Hegelian views found expression in Grundlehren der Dogmatik (2d ed. 1827) and Vorlesungen über die Christliche Moral, Dogmatik, &c. (4 vols. 1847-49). He also wrote Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (4 vols. 2d ed. 1831-34), Institutiones Symbolicæ (3d ed. 1830), System des Katholizismus in seiner symbolischen Entwickelung (3 vols. 1810-13), and other works.