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Albrecht Alt (born 20 September 1883 in Stübach (Franconia); died 24 April 1956 in Leipzig), was a leading German Protestant theologian.

Eldest aon of a Protestant minister, he completed high school in Ansbach and studied theology at the Friedrich Alexander university attending Nuremberg and the University of Leipzig. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate for the office of Lecturer at Munich Predigerseminar. In 1908 he was a scholarship holder of the German Evangelist institute for Antiquity and undertook his first Palestine journey. In the same year he became a supervisor of the theological College in Greifswald. In 1909 he wrote Israel and Egypt as part of his Doctorate at the University of Greifswald.

In 1912 he became an extraordinary professor in Greifswald, an in 1914 was named by Bernhard Duhm as a Professor at the University of Basel. During the First World War he served as a Leader in the Cartography Department of the the German Eastern Army. After the war he was again appointed a professor in Basel, then Probost of the Erlöserkirche in Jerusalem. In 1921 he was appointed to the Halle University, in 1923 to the University of Leipzig, although he was given one year off to completion of his activities in Jerusalem.

Major Works

  • "The God of the fathers. A contribution for the prehistory of Israeli"; (Contributions to the science of the old person and new will 3.12); Kohl hammer: Stuttgart 1929.
  • "A New View on the origin of the Hyksos"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig. Philological-historical class 101.6); Academy publishing house: Berlin 1954.
  • "Brief writing on the history of the people of Israel". Selection in a volume; Evangelist publishing house: Berlin 1962 [1963].
  • "The city state of Samaria"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig. Philological-historical class 101.5); Academy publishing house: Berlin 1954.
  • "The origins of Israeli"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig, philological-historical class 86.1); Hirzel: Leipzig 1934.
  • "Peoples and states of Syria in early antiquity"; (The old Orient: in common-understandable representations 34.4); Hinrichs: Leipzig 1936.

References

  • H. Bardtke: "Albrecht Alt. Life and work"; Article in: ThLZ 81 (1956); P. 513-522.
  • Matthias Köckert: "God the Father and promises. An argument with Albrecht Alt and his inheritance"; (Research for the religion and literature of the old person and new will 142); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Goettingen 1988; ISBN 3-525-53821-9.
  • Friedrich William Bautz: "Albrecht Alt"; Article in: BBKL I (1990); Frame 125.
  • R. Smend: "German Old Testament over three centuries"; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Goettingen 1989; ISBN 3-525-53584-8.
  • Manfred Weippert: "Albrecht Alt"; Article in: TRE 2 (1978), P. 303-305.
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