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2 unusual facts about Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider


Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider

Hugh James Rose had published in England (1825) a volume of sermons on the rationalist movement (The State of the Protestant Religion in Germany), in which he classed Bretschneider with the rationalists; and Bretschneider contended that he himself was not a rationalist in the ordinary sense of the term, but a rational supernaturalist.

Through the good offices of Reinhard, he became pastor of Schneeberg in Saxony (1807).


Francis Haywood

In 1828 (describing himself as a 'layman of the Church of England', though he was in fact active in Liverpool Unitarian circles) he translated a reply by the theological rationalist Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider to Hugh James Rose's essay on the state of Protestantism in Germany.


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