Emil Friedrich Kautzsch

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (September 4, 1841 – May 7, 1910) was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plauen, 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) and received a professorship at Halle in 1888.

Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine in 1876, and he became one of the founding members of the Palestine Exploration Society of Germany the following year.^[1] He was also one of the editors of the Theologische Studien und Kritiken, beginning in 1888.

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 Hagenbach's Encykloädie und Methodologie (1880-1884)
The 22nd through the 28th editions of Gesenius' Hebräische Grammatik, (last edition published in 1909)^[2]

In addition, Kautzsch wrote:

Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments, (1900), with other scholars
Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments, (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1911), published posthumously
De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo Apostolo Allegatis, (1869)
Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen, (1884)
Heilige Schrift des Alten Testaments, (3rd edition, 1908-10), with other scholars

References

^ "Kautzsch, Emil Friedrich". Jewish Virtual Library. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_10906.html. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
^ Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, edited and enlarged by Emil Kautzsch, translated by Arthur Ernest Cowley

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