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title: 'The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2021-09-30
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2021-the-schaff-herzog-encyclopedia
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# The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia

[Philip Schaff](/authors/philip-schaff), the Reformed scholar and historian, was a prolific writer who produced several sets of great interest to readers in his day, as well as ours.

In the past we have highlighted Schaff’s 8-volume [*History of the Christian Church*](/blog/2018-new-schaff-resources-at-lcp) and his 3-volume [*Creeds of Christendom*](/blog/2020-schaffs-creeds-of-christendom). Today we take note of another addition to his page at Log College Press. Both the 3-volume *A Religious Encyclopedia* (1882-1884) and the 13-volume *The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge* (1908-1914) are now available to read. The latter is the expanded edition, published posthumously, of the former, all of which are based on the original work of Johann Jakob Herzog’s *Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche* (1853–1868). Schaff edited an additional work titled *Encyclopedia of Living Divines and Christian Workers of All Denominations in Europe and America, Being a Supplement to Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge* (1887).

We have recently added his assistant editor, [Samuel Macauley Jackson](/authors/samuel-macauley-jackson) (1851-1912), to Log College Press, and are working to add more of his works, including those which he jointly produced with Philip Schaff.

Together the volumes produced by these men contain a wealth of information historical, biographical and theological. The student of church history will benefit from this valuable 19th and early 20th century scholarship. Peruse these resources on [the Philip Schaff page](/authors/philip-schaff), and avail yourself of this great treasure.