Editing August Neander (section)

=== People ===
Shortly after Neander's birth, his mother Esther divorced her husband and moved the family to Hamburg where they experienced a great deal of poverty.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Saint Augustin, Melancthon, Neander: Three Biographies|last=Schaff|first=Philip|publisher=Funk & Wagnalis Publishers|year=1886|location=New York|pages=133|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Germany: Its Universities, Theology, and Religion; With Sketches of Neander, Tholuck, Olsausen, Hengstenberg, Twesten, Nitzsch, Muller, Ullmann, Rothe, Dorner, Lange, Ebrard, Wichern, and Other Distinguished German Devines of the Age.|last=Schaff|first=Philip|publisher=Lindsay and Blakiston|year=1857|location=Philadelphia|pages=262|via=Google Books}}</ref>  However, Neander cherished this period in his life and described it in endearing terms as “men in all ages who…have been indebted to their pious mothers” for planting the seeds of faith in their hearts.<ref>{{Cite book|title=History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church|last=Neander|first=Augustus|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|year=1854|pages=217|via=Google Books}}</ref>

This period in Neander's life had a profound effect on both his personal faith and his attitude towards life in general. Neander was often described as ‘wide-hearted’, ‘truthful’, ‘sincere’, ‘free from all the stuff of vanity’, ‘affectionate’, ‘innocent and pure of heart’.<ref>{{Cite journal|year=1851|title=Recollections of Neander|journal=Littell's Living Age|volume=30|pages=163–69|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Hogg|first=James|year=1851|title=Portrait Gallery - Neander - Second Paper|journal=Hogg's Instructor|volume=7|pages=410|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Saint Augustin, Melancthon, Neander: Three Biographies|last=Schaff|first=Philip|publisher=Funk & Wagnalis Publishers|year=1886|pages=138|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Neander felt indebted to his teacher and later his friend and colleague Schleiermacher.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works and Methods|last=Bradley & Muller|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|year=2016|location=Grand Rapids, MI|pages=17}}</ref> <blockquote>“To exhibit the history of the church of Christ, as a living witness of the divine power of Christianity; as a school of Christian experience; a voice, a sounding through the ages, of instruction, of doctrine, and of reproof, for all who are disposed to listen.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=General History of the Christian Religion and Church. Translated From the Second and Improved Edition by Joseph Torrey. Volume First|last=Neander|first=Augustus|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|year=1854|pages=16|via=Google Books}}</ref></blockquote>