Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (4 September 1841 – 7 May 1910) was a German

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scholar and

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critic, born at

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Biography

He was educated at

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, in whose theological faculty he was appointed

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(1869) and

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(1871). Subsequently he held

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(1872–80), where he received an honorary Swiss citizenship and made friends with

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, after which he moved to

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(1880–88) until receiving a professorship at Halle in 1888. Spirituskreis 1902 k

Kautzsch traveled to

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in 1876, and became one of the founding members of the "German Society for the Exploration of Palestine" (Deutscher Palästina-Verein) the following year. He was also one of the editors of the '' Theologische Studien und Kritiken'', beginning in 1888.

Published works

Kautzsch edited the following works: * The 8th edition of Hermann Scholz's ''Abriss der Hebräischen Laut- und Formenlehre'', (1899). * The 10th and 11th editions of

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's ''Encyklopädie und Methodologie'' (1880-1884). * The 22nd through the 28th editions of Gesenius' ''Hebräische Grammatik'', (last edition published in 1909)., edited and enlarged by Emil Kautzsch, translated by Arthur Ernest Cowley In addition, Kautzsch wrote: * ''De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo Apostolo Allegatis'', (1869). * ''Die Echtheit der moabitischen Altertümer geprüft'', (Strassburg, 1876). * * * ''Textbibel des Alten und Neuen Testaments'', (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1899), with Karl Weizsäcker, later Karl von Weizsäcker, grandfather of

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. Both were honored for this work with a nobility title, which Kautzsch refused and asked for the Swiss citizenship instead. * ''Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments'', (1900), with other scholars. * * ''Heilige Schrift des Alten Testaments'', (3rd edition, 1908–10), with other scholars. * ''Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments'', (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1911), published posthumously.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kautzsch, Emil Friedrich German Hebraists Christian Hebraists Academic staff of Leipzig University Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Academic staff of the University of Basel Leipzig University alumni People from the Kingdom of Saxony 1841 births 1910 deaths German male non-fiction writers People from Plauen