Emil Friedrich Kautzsch

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Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (1841-1910) was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plausen (Saxony). He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent (1869) and professor (1871). Subsequently he held chairs at Basel (1872-80) and Tübingen (1880-88. In 1888 he received a professorship at Halle. He was one of the founders of the Palestine Exploration Society of Germany (1877) and from 1888 one of the editors of the Theologische Studien und Kritiken. He edited Hagenbach's Encykloädie und Methodologie (the tenth and eleventh editions); Gesenius' Hebräische Grammatik (from the 22d to the 28th editions, 1909); Scholz's Abriss der hebräischen Laut-und Formenlehre (thoroughly revised; eighth edition, 1899). He published:

  • De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo Apostolo Allegatis (1869)
  • Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen (1884)
  • Heilige Schrift des alten Testaments (third edition, 1908-10), with other scholars
  • Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des alten Testaments (1900), with others