Johann Jakob Herzog
Johann Jakob Herzog, was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.
Herzog studied theology at the University of Basel and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Basel in 1830. In 1835-1846 he was a professor of historical theology at the Academy in Lausanne. Afterwards he served as a professor in Halle, and eventually, he settled at Erlangen as a professor of church history.
Herzog is remembered for his writings on the history of the Reformation, and for his studies of the Waldensian Church.
Herzog was author of the "Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche", of which a new edition, in collaboration with Gustav Leopold Plitt and Albert Hauck, was published from 1877 to 1888. From 1896 to 1913, Hauck released a third edition of the encyclopedia. Based on the encyclopedia's third edition, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge was subsequently published in English from 1908 to 1914.Other writings by Herzog
- Das Leben Johannes Oekolampads und die Reformation der Kirche zu Basel, 1843.
- Die romanischen Waldenser, ihre vorreformatorischen Zustände und Lehren, 1853.
- Abriss der gesammten Kirchengeschichte.
