Kassel
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– 7 February 1880,
Berlin
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exegete
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. He was the older brother of
classical philologist
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theology
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and oriental languages at the universities of
Bonn
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Berlin
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. At Halle he was especially influenced by the teachings of
Wilhelm Gesenius
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 178623 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic.
Biography
Gesenius was born at Nordhausen. In 1803 he bec ...
. In 1829 he qualified as a lecturer of oriental languages at the University of Berlin, where in 1831, he was appointed an associate professor of
Old Testament
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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
(ADB; ) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language.
It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Lei ...
(ADB). Band 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, S. 346 f.
In the realm of politics he was a distinguished member of the ''Fortschrittspartei'' (Progressive Party). Along with art historian Heinrich Gustav Hotho, theologian Wilhelm Vatke, philosopher
Karl Ludwig Michelet
Karl Ludwig Michelet (4 December 1801 – 15 December 1893) was a German
Hegelianism
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at Berlin.
Selected works
* ''Nalodaya; Sanscritum carmen, Calidaso adscriptum una cum Pradschnacari Mithilensis scholiis'', 1830 (edition of
Kālidāsa
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).
* ''De Hebraeorum leviratu'', 1835.
* ''Coniectanea quaedam in vetus testamentum'', 1835.
* "Interpretation of the number 666 (χξϛ) in the Apocalypse (13:18) and the various reading 616 (χιϛ)". Translated from the "''Zeitschrift für speculative Theologie''", (1836) Vol. I Part II by
Henry Boynton Smith
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