Alexander von Bulmerincq
Alexander Michael Charles of Bulmerincq (born May 24 . Jul / 5. June 1868 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 29. March 1938 in Tartu ) was a Baltic German Protestant theologian and Orientalist .
Life
Bulmerincq attended grammar school in Warsaw from 1876 to 1885 , studied Protestant theology , Old Testament and Semitic languages in Dorpat from 1885 and in Leipzig from 1891 . In Dorpat he was a member of the Corps Neobaltia. In 1894 he received the degree of Mag. Theol in Dorpat . and in the same year became a religion teacher at a girls' school there. In 1896/97 he was back in Leipzig for scientific purposes.
In 1898 he became associate professor and in 1907 deputy full professor for Semitic languages at the University of Dorpat . From 1908 to 1912 he was dean of the theological faculty, from 1908 at the same time pastor- adjunct at the Johannes Church. As a delegate from Dorpater University, he took part in the orientalist congresses in Rome (1899), Hamburg (1902), Algiers (1905), Copenhagen (1908) and Athens (1912).
In 1919 Bulmerincq became full professor of the Old Testament and Semitic languages. One of his students was the orientalist Arthur Võõbus .
The son Alexander Georg von Bulmerincq came from the marriage with Marie von Stiernheim .
Awards
- Honorary Theological Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen (1906)
Publications
- The future picture of the prophet Jeremiah from Anathot (Mag Diss.)
- The saying about Edom in Malachi , 1906
- About Social Welfare in the Old Testament , 1910
- The Aswan and Elephantine papyrus find , 1913
- The Religion of Israel in the Judiciary , 1914
- The Prophet Malachi , 2 volumes, 1936/32
literature
- Bruno von Lingen, Georg von Rieder: Album Neobaltorum 1879–1956 , o. O. 1956
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander von Bulmerincq in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel status of the Evangelical Church in Russia ( Memento from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Petrograd 1914
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Alexander von Bulmerincq. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bulmerincq, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bulmerincq, Alexander Michael Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic theologian and orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1938 |
| Place of death | Dorpat |