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At first glance, Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) was no friend of the History of Religions School. He criticized it publicly and, unlike his successor to the university chair and in the “Church Father’s Commission” of the Prussian Academy, Hans Lietzmann (1875-1942), was hardly interested in religions in the environment of ancient Christianity. But what was his exact relationship with prominent representatives of this group? How did he treat their publications in the Theologische Literaturzeitung he founded and edited at a specific time? What place did he give them and their long-term editorial projects in the academy? How did this relationship change under his successor, Lietzmann, at the university, academy, and in the review journal? The paper will draw a new picture from previously unpublished sources.