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Harnack

American  
[hahr-nahk] / ˈhɑr nɑk /

noun

  1. Adolf von 1851–1930, German Protestant theologian, born in Estonia.


Harnack British  
/ ˈharnak /

noun

  1. Adolf von. 1851–1930, German Protestant theologian, author of the influential History of Dogma (1886–90)

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Donner’s biography of Mildred Harnack, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943, uses archives, interviews, diaries and other sources to present a textured account of her life as a resister.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Arvid Harnack did have a PhD, but he essentially worked as a bureaucrat in the Reich Ministry of Economics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

Many accounts of Mildred and Arvid Harnack describe him as a scholar and her as “an English teacher” or “housewife,” but this is inaccurate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

Mildred Fish was born in Milwaukee in 1902; her husband, Arvid Harnack, was German.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

In his exegesis, Harnack has been the most uncompromising of critics.

From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa

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