00:46:06


[Login]   
[Book List]  
 
Bidding Information
Lot #    7900
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 4:36:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Handworterbuch... das biblischen Chaldaismus
Author    Wilhelm Gesenius
City    Leipzig
Publisher    Friedrich Ch. Wil. Vogel
Publication Date    1815
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. XVI, 720 pp., 218:135 mm., wide margins, edges in read, light age staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), German orientalist and biblical critic, was born at Nordhausen, Hanover, on the 3rd of February 1786. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the university of Helmstdt, where Heinrich Henke (1752-1809) was his most influential teacher; but the latter part of his university course was taken at Gottingen, where J. G. Eichhorn and T. C. Tychsen were then at the height of their popularity. In 1806, shortly after graduation, he became Repetent and Privatdozent in that university; and, as he was fond of afterwards relating, had Neander for his first pupil in Hebrew. In 1810 he became professor extraordinarius in theology, and in 1811 ordinarius, at the university of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life. He taught with great regularity for upward of thirty years, the only interruptions being that of 1813-1814 (occasioned by the War of Liberation, during which the university was closed) and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, first in 1820 to Paris, London and Oxford with his colleague Johann Karl Thilo (1794 1853) for the examination of rare oriental manuscripts, and in 1835 to England and Holland in connection with his Phoenician studies. He soon became the most popular teacher of Hebrew and of Old Testament introduction and exegesis in Germany; during his later years his lectures were attended by nearly five hundred students. He died at Halle on the 23rd of October 1842. To Gesehius belongs in a large measure the credit of having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and of inaugurating the strictly scientific (and comparative) method which has since been so fruitful. As an exegete he exercised a powerful, and on the whole a beneficial, influence on theological investigation.
          
Reference
Description		    Enc. Brit, 1911 ed.
        
Associated Images
2 Images (Click thumbnail to view full size image):
  Order   Image   Caption
  1   Click to view full size  
  
  2   Click to view full size  
  
  
Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica