Hermann Guthe (10 May 1849 - 11 August 1936) was a German Semitic scholar. He was educated at

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, and afterwards worked for several years as a private tutor. In 1884 he became a

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. From 1877 to 1896 he edited the '' Zeitschrift'', and from 1897 to 1906 the ''Mitteilungen'' and ''Nachrichten'', of the German Palästina-Verein, full name: ''Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas'' ("German Association for the Study of Palestine"), which he co-founded in 1877.Guthe, Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Hermann
at Deutsche Biographie In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in

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. On the first trip he participated in an excavation on the southeast hill of

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, and in 1894 and 1912, he was in Palestine in order to determine research opportunities on behalf of the association.

Published works

He wrote on some of the

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s in

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (4 September 1841 – 7 May 1910) was a German Hebrew language, Hebrew scholar and Bible, biblical critic, born at Plauen, Kingdom of Saxony, Saxony. Biography He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty ...

's translation of the Old Testament and a metrical version of

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(1907) with

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OCLC WorldCat His published work was in the fields of

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and

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and of archæology and

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, the more important titles being: * ''Ausgrabungen bei Jerusalem'' (1883) – Excavations in

. * ''Palæstina in Bild und Wort'' (1883–84), with

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* ''Das Zukunftsbild Jesaias'' (1885). * ''Palæstina'' (1908). * ''Bibel-Atlas'' (1911). * ''Geschichte des Volkes Israel'' (third edition, 1912). He was also a contributor to the 1903 ''

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''.

References and external links

* * Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Guthe, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Band 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, , Sp. 404–405. Archaeologists from Lower Saxony 19th-century German linguists German Lutheran theologians Academic staff of Leipzig University People from Wolfenbüttel (district) People from the Duchy of Brunswick 1849 births 1936 deaths German Hebraists 19th-century German Protestant theologians 20th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-theologian-stub