Emil Friedrich

Kautzsch

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (4 September

1841 – 7 May 1910) was a German
Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at
Plauen, Saxony.
Emil Kautzsch

Biography
He was educated at Leipzig, in whose
theological faculty he was appointed
privatdozent (1869) and professor
(1871). Subsequently he held chairs at
Basel (1872–80), where he received an
honorary Swiss citizenship and made
friends with Friedrich Nietzsche, after
which he moved to Tübingen (1880–88)
until receiving a professorship at Halle in
1888.

Spirituskreis (1902); standing, from left to right:

Georg Wissowa, Eduard Meyer, Alois Riehl,
Johannes Conrad, Carl Robert, Rudolf Stammler,
Emil Kautzsch, Max Reischle; seated, from left to
right: Erich Haupt, Edgar Loening, Friedrich Loofs,
Wilhelm Dittenberger.

Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine

in 1876, and became one of the founding
members of the "German Society for the
Exploration of Palestine" (Deutscher
Palästina-Verein) the following year.[1] 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
Hagenbach's Encyklopädie und
Methodologie (1880-1884).
 The 22nd through the 28th editions of
Gesenius' Hebräische Grammatik, (last
edition published in 1909).[2]

In addition, Kautzsch wrote:

De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo

Apostolo Allegatis, (1869).
Die Echtheit der moabitischen
Altertümer geprüft, (Strassburg, 1876).
Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen,
(1884).
Textbibel des Alten und Neuen
Testaments, (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr,
1899), with Karl Weizsäcker, later Karl
von Weizsäcker, grandfather of Richard
von Weizsäcker. 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.

References
1. "Kautzsch, Emil Friedrich" . Jewish
Virtual Library. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
 2.  Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, edited
and enlarged by Emil Kautzsch,
translated by Arthur Ernest Cowley
This article incorporates text from a
publication now in the public
domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.;
Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New
International Encyclopedia (1st ed.).
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