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Buxtorf is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * August Buxtorf (1877–1969), Swiss geologist * Johannes Buxtorf (1564–1629), German theologian * Johannes Buxtorf II (1599–1664), Swiss theologian, son of Johannes * Johannes Jakob Buxtorf (1645–1705), Swiss Hebraist, son of Johannes II {{surname ...
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Johannes Buxtorf
Johannes Buxtorf () (December 25, 1564September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, ''De Synagoga Judaica'' (1st. ed. 1603), scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period. Buxtorf was the father of Johannes Buxtorf the Younger. Life Buxtorf was born at Kamen in Westphalia. The original form of the name was Bockstrop, or Boxtrop, from which was derived the family crest, which bore the figure of a goat (German ''Bock'', he-goat). After the death of his father, who was minister of Kamen, Buxtorf studied at Marburg and the newly founded Herborn Academy, at the latter of which Caspar Olevian (1536–1587) and Johannes Piscator (1546–1625) had been appointed professors of theology. At a later date Piscator received the assistance of Buxtorf in the preparation of his Latin tra ...
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Johannes Buxtorf II
Johannes Buxtorf the Younger, (13 August 1599 – 16 August 1664) was the son of the scholar Johannes Buxtorf, and a Protestant Christian Hebraist. Life Buxtorf was born in Basel, where he also died. Before the age of thirteen he matriculated at the University of Basel, and in December 1615 graduated as Master of Arts there. He went to Heidelberg, where he continued his studies under David Pareus, Abraham Scultetus, Johann Heinrich Alting, and others. In 1618 he attended the synod of Dort, where he formed friendships with Simon Episcopius, Ludwig Crocius, and others. He succeeded his late father in the chair of Hebrew at the university; he gained an almost equal reputation, in the same domain, and was considered a chip off the old block. Although he received offers from Groningen, Leyden, and other places, he preferred to retain his position at Basel. He was four times married, and in his later years experienced many sorrows. Like his father, Buxtorf maintained relatio ...
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August Buxtorf
August Buxtorf (16 December 1877 – 2 March 1969) was a Swiss geologist. He worked at the University of Basel and contributed to ideas on nappes and mountain folds. His cross section of the Jura mountains to guide tunnel building in 1916 was widely used to understand buckling and folding. Buxtorf was born in Basel to merchant Friedrich and Ernestine Rupp. He studied botany and geology at Basel and Grenoble before obtaining his doctorate in 1900 from the University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ... with thesis on the geology of Gelterkinden. He worked as a petroleum geologist in Egypt, Burma and India. He began to examine disharmonious folding and returned to academics. In 1907 he completed his habilitation with Karl Schmidt and Heinrich Preiswerk an ...
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