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In 1809 he returned to Hamburg to become a pastor. But the city had a
small fund to support one of its theologians as a lecturer at Heidelberg.
This was wisely appropriated to Neander, who promised more as a scholar
than as a preacher. Accordingly, in 1811, we find him established at
Heidelberg as a teacher in the University, he having previously, on his
public profession of Christianity, assumed the name of _Neander_ deriving
it from the Greek, [Greek: nheos haner], "a new man," to signify
the entire change which had come over him. The family name was Mendel. The
year following he was appointed Professor Extraordinary, which, in plain
English, means a professor without a regular salary from government, and
shortly issued his work on "The Emperor Julian and his Time," the first of
those monographs which awakened the admiration of his learned countrymen,
and paved the way for the great undertaking of his life, "A General
History of the Christian Religion and Church."
In 1813, when but twenty-four years of age, he was called to a
professorship in the then recently established University of Berlin, and
signalized his removal thither by a work on "St.
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