THE PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



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it was decided by the academy that an edition worthy the respect of 

 scholars of the Greek writers prior to Eusebius and apart from those 

 whose works relate to the New Testament was greatly needed. The 

 Vienna academy had published the Lai in writings prior to the seventh 

 century. The commission into whoso ha in Is the work was given in 1893 

 consisted of Mommsen, Diels, von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, von Geb- 

 hardt, Loofs and Hamack. The cost of this publication will be met 

 jointly from the income of the Frau Heckmann foundation and by the 

 publishing house of J. Hinrich, Leipzig. It is confidently anticipated 

 thai in some of these writings questions will be answered like these: 



B. G. NlEBUHR. 



'How did the church free herself from her early Palestinian society?' 

 'How did the Eoman system arise?' 'How were Greek and Roman 

 culture changed into Greek and Roman Christianity?' 'How did the 

 church receive the middle age culture?' 'Why do the Greek and 

 Roman churches look back to the fathers as their founders, and to these 

 early periods as their classical periods?' • 



It was a special gift from Frederick William IV. which led the 

 academy to edit and publish the works of Frederick the Great. Droysen 



