MARHEINEKE

marheineke, philip konrad (1780-1846), german protestant divine, was born at hildesheim, hanover, on the 1st of may 1780. he studied at gottingen, and in 1805 was appointed professor extraordinarius of philosophy at erlangen; in 1807 he moved to heidelberg. in 1811 he became professor ordinarius at berlin, where from 1820 he was also preacher at trinity church and worked with schleiermacher. when he died, on the 31st of may 1846, he was a member of the supreme consistorial council. at first influenced by schelling, marheineke found a new master in hegel, and came to be regarded as the leader of the hegelian right. he sought to defend and explain all the orthodox doctrines of the church in an orthodox way in the terms of hegel's philosophy. the dogmatic system that resulted from this procedure was inevitably more hegelian than christian; it was in fact an essentially new form of christianity. marheineke's developed views on dogmatics are given in the third edition (1847) of his _die grundlehren der christlichen dogmatik als wissenschaft_. when he published the first edition (1819) he was still under the influence of schelling; the second edition (1827) marked his change of view. his works on symbolics show profound scholarship, keen critical insight, and rare impartiality. the _christliche symbolik_ (1810-1814) has been pronounced his masterpiece. his other works include _institutiones symbolicae_ (1812; 3rd ed., 1830), _geschichte der deutschen reformation_ (1816; 2nd ed., 1831-1834); _die reformation, ihre entstehung und verbreitung in deutschland_ (1846; 2nd ed., 1858), and the posthumous _theol. vorlesungen_ (1847-1849). see f. lichtenberger, _history of german theology_ (1889); a. weber, _le systeme dogmatique de marheineke_ (1857); and cf. o. pfleiderer, _development of theology in germany_ (1890).