Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Adolf von Harnack

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German historian Adolf von Harnack.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Adolf von Harnack

Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in 1914.

People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history. — © Adolf von Harnack
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
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