Schleiermacher belonged to a family of preachers on both sides of the house. His father was chaplain of the Reformed church (the name given to the Calvinistic Protestants of the continent) to a Prussian regiment of soldiers. His mother was a daughter of Royal Chaplain Stubenrauch and sister to Professor Stubenrauch, of the University of Halle. The family were poor, but intelligent and pious. The father’s early theological studies led him in his twenty-fourth year to inward renunciation