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Schleiermacher

American  
[shlahy-uhr-mah-khuhr] / ˈʃlaɪ ərˌmɑ xər /

noun

  1. Friedrich Ernst Daniel 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.


Schleiermacher British  
/ ˈʃlaiərˌmaxər /

noun

  1. Friedrich Ernst Daniel (ˈfriːdrɪç ɛrnst ˈdaːnjeːl). 1768–1834, German Protestant theologian and philosopher. His works include The Christian Faith (1821–22)

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A cohort of German Protestant thinkers such as Friedrich Schleiermacher theorized religion similarly—change was now progress, and liberal society clearly the heir to medieval religion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

“Klee and Feininger were rather backward-orientated,” Steffen Schleiermacher, a pianist who has researched and recorded music of the Bauhaus, said in an interview.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019

In 1807, a German scholar named Friedrich Schleiermacher published a letter observing that 1 Timothy used arguments that clashed with other letters written by Paul.

From Newsweek

Schleiermacher fell into theological disfavor after World War I, largely because of the neo-Orthodox revolt against religious liberalism led by Switzerland's Karl Barth.

From Time Magazine Archive

In making a close analysis of this little tract a learned German critic Schleiermacher, shows that it was probably compiled from thirty-three different manuscripts.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.