In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XII. Professor Harnack

CHAPTER XII PROFESSOR HARNACK IN November, 1904, I had the great pleasure of meeting Professor Harnack, the famous church his- torian, by many regarded as the ablest, certainly the most interesting and attractive professor in the University of Berlin. One could not fail to be struck by his youthful appearance—he was then about forty-five years of age, but looked even younger. Slight of figure, quick and alert in every movement, unable to sit in his professional chair as he lectures, hardly ever referring to his notes, he is essentially a “live man" if ever there was one. He strides up and down the narrow platform; he seizes his chair and turns it into every conceivable position; he raises his pen in his hand and uses it in his swift gestures—his eye beams with humour or gleams with swift, darting sarcasm. He is ever fair towards those whose views differ from his own, but when he pierces with his swift stiletto thrust some antediluvian dogma or presumptuous claim of the Church of England or the Church of Rome—his two pet aversions—his forefinger invariably touches the tip of his nose, and by that infallible token you know that, in his judgment, he has completely de- molished his antagonist’s position. For three years I had the good fortune to attend his lectures on 137

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