HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB

born Aug. 12, 1805, Basel, Switz. died Sept. 30, 1882, Erlangen, Ger. German Protestant theologian, professor of church history (University of Halle, 1847-54) and New Testament exegesis (University of Erlangen, 1854-77), and authority on the Hussite-Waldensian church. He compiled and edited the standard theological reference work Real-Encyklopdie fr protestantische Theologie und Kirche (22 vols., 1854-68), which was published in an abridged English version as The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 vol., 1951-54).