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In Aramaic, Hebrew and German. Spine rebound in leather by a master bookbinder with gilt leather label. Decorative end papers. Edges of the pages are dyed in a very attractive maroon. Front free end paper has a Hebrew inscription in a beautiful hand, dated the 13th of Tamus [5]660 [= 1900], with the place name: Berlin. The inscription is by the great scholar and wonderful human being, Tzvi Malter, who gave this book as a present an eminent historian of Jewish philosophy, David Neimark, as a sign of friendship.HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM GESENIUM (Nordhausen, Hanover, 3 February 1786 - Halle 23 October 1842), was a German Protestant Hebraist, orientalist, lexicographer, and biblical critic. His main field of interest was the scientific investigation of biblical Hebrew based on comparison with other Semitic languages and his studies remained basic for subsequent research. His work was the first in a field of research that freed the study of Hebrew from theological considerations. His Hebräische Grammatik appeared first in 1813, and ever since has been a standard work on the subject, 27 editions having appeared in Germany, as well as translations in most European languages. ) Gesenius was the pioneer of a new era of Hebrew philology. On the basis of the great Dutch Orientalists of the eighteenth century, he divorced Hebrew linguistics from dogmatic theology, and placed the subject on the level of other linguistic sciences by a systematic comparison of cognate languages and a strictly rational method. As a lecturer he was no less influential than as an author. He was a born teacher, and knew how to make the driest subjects fascinating in their interest. Exactness of method, absorption in details, sobriety of judgment, clear presentation, and practicality were his chief characteristics. He was a student of linguistics rather than theology, and his attention was devoted to details rather than generalizations, even in the realm of Hebrew grammar. In 1803 he became a student of philosophy and theology at the university of Helmstedt. 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 1813-1814 (during the War of Liberation, when the university was closed) and those occasioned by two prolonged literary tours, 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 quickly 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. In 1827, after declining an invitation to take Eichhorn's place at Gottingen, Gesenius was made a Consistorialrath; but, apart from the violent attacks to which he, along with his friend and colleague Julius Wegscheider, was in 1830 subjected by E. W. Hengstenberg and his party in the Evangelise/se Kirchenzeitung, on account of his rationalism, his life was uneventful. 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. Of his many works, the earliest, published in 1810, entitled Versuch fiber die maltesische Sprache, was a successful refutation of the widely current opinion that the modern Maltese was of Punic origin. In the same year appeared the first volume of the Hebraisches u. Chaldaisches Handworterbuch, completed in 1812. Revised editions of this appear periodically in Germany. . . . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009402
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