Hermann, Emil

Hermann, Emil a German Protestant professor of canon law, was born at Dresden, April 9, 1812. He studied at Leipsic, where he also commenced his academical career in 1834. He was professor at Kiel in 1842, in 1847 at Gottingen, and in 1868 at Heidelberg. In 1872 he was called to Berlin as president of the Evaingelical Superior Church Council (Obekirchen-raiths), and occupied this position till 1877. He died at Gotha, April 16,1885. Hermann published, Johaun Freiherr zu Schwarzenberg (Leipsic, 1841): — Autoritat des kirchlichen Symbols (Kiel, 1846): — Ueber die Stellung der Religionsgemeinschafen im Staate (Gottingen, 1849): — Ueber den Entwutfeiner Kirchenordnung fur die Sachsische Landeskirche (Berlin, 1861): — Die nothwendigen Grundlagen einer die consistoriale und synodale Ordnung vereinigenden Kirchenvenfassung (ibid. 1862): — Das staatliche Veto bei Bischofswahlen nach den Rechte der oberrheinischens Kirchenprovinz (Heidelberg, 1869). See Zutchlold, Bibl. Theol. 1:545 sq. (B.P.)