Heinrich Hansen (13 October 1861 – 17 April 1940) was a GermanLutheran theologian and the father of theLutheran High Church movement in Germany.
Hansen was born in Klockries nearLindholm (in present-dayNordfriesland) as a son of a teacher. InKiel andErlangen he studied theology,Hebrew,Syriac,Arabic and in particular theOld Testament underAugust Klostermann. He worked since 1887 as a pastor inSchleswig-Holstein: inReinfeld, Lindholm, on the islandPellworm, inKropp and in Olderup nearHusum.
Hansen wrote Latin hymns and worked on aLow German Bible translation and published a Low German hymnal. By the study of the old Lutheran theologians, particularlyMartin Chemnitz, and theRoman Catholic theologianJohann Adam Möhler, he came to anEvangelical Catholic view about church. In theReformation jubilee year of 1917—exactly 100 years afterClaus Harms— Hansen published 95 theses (Stimuli et Clavi) in Latin and German, as a sharp criticism against contemporaryProtestantism. His theses influenced the foundation of "Hochkirchliche Vereinigung" in October 1918. Hansen is well known as a co-founder and the first chairman ofHochkirchliche Vereinigung. He died inBreklum.
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