Friedrich Eduard König

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Friedrich Eduard König (1846- ? ) was a German Semitic scholar. He was born in Reichenbach im Vogtland and was educated at the University of Leipzig, where he became docent in 1879 and professor in 1885. In 1888 he became professor at Rostock and in 1900 at Bonn. He attempted to apply the phonetic and physiological methods of modern philology to Hebrew and Ethiopic in such works as Gedanke, Laut, und Akzent als die drei Faktoren der Sprachbilding (1874), Neue Studien über Schrift, Aussprache, und generelle Formenlehre des Aethiopischen (1877), and Historisch-kritisches Lehrgebäude der Hebräischen (1881-97). Among his more general books are:

• Religious History of Israel (1885)
• Neue Prinzipien der alttestamentlichen Kritik (1902)
• Geschichte des Reiches Gottes bis auf Jesus Christus (1908)
• Hebräisch-aramäisches Worterbuch zum alten Testament (1910)
• Geschichte der alttestamentlichen Religion kritisch dargestellt (1912)

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