Jakob Georg Christian Adler (8 December 1756, in
Arnis
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near
Kappeln
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,
Schleswig
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– 22 August 1834, in
Giekau near
Lütjenburg) was a Danish-German
Generalsuperintendent for
Holstein
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Holstein once existed as the German County of Holstein (; 8 ...
and
Schleswig
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,
Orientalist,
Syriac language
The Syriac language ( ; ), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (), the Mesopotamian language () and Aramaic (), is an Aramaic#Eastern Middle Aramaic, Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is ...
professor at the
University of Copenhagen
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...
, Lutheran theologian,
Oberkonsistorialrat, book writer, religious educator,
coin collector
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and head of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Bibelgesellschaft.
Biography
Jacob Georg Christian Adler was the son of
Georg Christian Adler and a relative of
Caspar Aquila
Caspar Aquila (sometimes Kaspar or Gaspar Aquila; 7 August 148812 November 1560), born Johann Kaspar Adler, was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer.
Biography
He was born at Augsburg, and educated there, at Ulm (1502), in Italy (he met Era ...
and
Matthias Claudius
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Life
Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena. He spent the greater part of his life i ...
. Adler received private education from his father and attended the
Christianeum Hamburg
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His ...
. Then he studied theology at the
University of Kiel
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and oriental studies under
Oluf Gerhard Tychsen at the
University of Bützow and Rostock. He wrote several books on Syriac language and ancient Arabian language, about a long stay in Rome etc.
Work
* . Kiel: Carl Ernst Bohn 1781 (published by his brother)
* . Altona 1783
* . Hamburg u. Bützow 1773, 2. Aufl., Altona 1792
* . Hamburg 1779
* . Kopenhagen 1780
* , Bd. I. Rom 1787, Bd. II, Kopenhagen 1792
* . Kopenhagen 1789
* – Herausgeber des von J. J. Reiske bearbeiteten u. übersetzten Werkes (5 Bde.). Kopenhagen 1789–95
Literature about Adler
* August Hennings (?): "Schleswig-Holsteinische Kirchen-Agende". In: ''Der Genius der Zeit'' 13 (1798), S. 369–375
* H
nnings, A
gust: "Einladung zur Aufmerksamkeit auf einen geheimen, und iezt vielleicht noch allgemein unerkannt gebliebenen Grund der Agende ". In: ''Der Genius der Zeit'' 15 (1798), S. 1–7
* H
nnings, A
gust: "Schleswig Holsteinische Kirchenagende". In: ''Der Genius der Zeit'' 15 (1798), S. 404–405
* "Die Vorfahren des Generalsuperintendenten A.", in: ''Schriftenreihe des Vereins f. schleswig-holsteinische Kirchengeschichte'', Rh. 2, Bd. 5, 1910–13; S. 213 ff.
* Anton Baumstark: ''Geschichte der syrischen Literatur''
..1922; S. 144
* O. F. Arends: ''Gejstligheden i Slesvig og Holsten fra Reformationen til 1864 – Personalhistoriske Untersogelser''. Kopenhagen 1932
* ''Dansk biografisk Leksikon'', Bd. I. 1933; S. 129 ff.
* F. Rosenthal: ''Die aramaistischen Forschungen seit dem 20. Jhd.'' – Nöldeke's Veröffentlichungen. Leiden 1939; S. 144 f.
*
Joh. W. Fück: ''Die arabischen Studien in Europa bis in den Anfang des 20. Jhd.'', 1955; S. 218 (Fn. S. 557)
* ''Allg. Deutsche Biographie'' (55 Bde. und 1 RBd.). Leipzig 1875–1912; Bd. I, S. 85 f.
* ''Neue Deutsche Biographie.'' Berlin 1953 ff.; Bd. I, S. 70 f.
* Kurt Galling (Hrsg.): ''Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart – Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft'' (6 Bde.). Tübingen 1957–1962; RBd. 1965, Teil I, S. 96 f.
* Walter Kasper et al. (Hrsg.): ''Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche'', 3. Aufl. Freiburg 1993 ff.; Bd. I, 148 f.
*''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques''. Paris 1912 ff.; Bd. I, S. 573
*Dr. Werner Aquila: ''Die Nachfahren Leonhard Adlers später Aquila aus Augsburg''. Sonderdruck des Genealogischen Jahrbuches (hrsgg. von der Zentralstelle für Personen- und Familiengeschichte, Bd. 44. Neustadt/Aisch: Verlag Degener & Co. 2004)
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1756 births
1834 deaths
People from Schleswig-Flensburg
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18th-century writers in Latin
18th-century German writers
German Lutheran theologians
Danish numismatists
German numismatists
German orientalists
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Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
University of Kiel alumni
German male non-fiction writers
18th-century German male writers
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