Andreas Kaempfer

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Andreas Kaempfer (born July 15, 1658 in Lemgo , † August 25, 1743 in Billertshausen ; actually Andreas Kempffer ) was a German orientalist , pastor and Hebrew .

Life

Andreas Kaempfer was born as the third son of Johannes Kaempfer, pastor at the St. Nicolai Church in Lemgo. Since the education of his older brothers, Joachim and Engelbert , had cost his father a lot of money, Andreas Kaempfer received an inadequate educational background, and yet in 1676 or 1677 he and Joachim went to the University of Jena to study the Hebrew language . After two years he finished his studies and returned home to travel with Engelbert to Königsberg in October 1680 . In Lübeck, however, they parted ways and Andreas Kaempfer went to Sweden .

In Stockholm he first had the idea of becoming a soldier , which he never fulfilled. In fact, he became both a schoolteacher and a private tutor , teaching French and German in addition to Hebrew . He later went to Uppsala to teach the Hebrew and German languages ​​and at the same time learned Arabic . After four years in Sweden, Kaempfer went to Hamburg to pass on knowledge of the Hebrew language.

After four and a half years as a private tutor in Hamburg, he was driven to Leipzig in 1689 to teach the Hebrew language, which he said he had learned to serve the world and not to earn money. On March 10, 1690, however, the prohibition of collegia pietatis was issued, which forced him to leave Leipzig. He went to Gedern to serve as pastor to work, put the end in 1690, however, after casting about for at the local university to teach.

Later Kaempfer also became a teacher of a pedagogy and received the degree of master's degree . Kaempfer soon ended his university teaching activities and in 1701 became a pastor in Billertshausen . He stayed in this position for 42 years until he died on August 25, 1743.

Works

  • De stupendo Israelitarum sub duce Angelo Creatore per mare rubrum itinere
  • De stupendo Israelitarum sub duce Arco Foederis per Jordanum transitu
  • Andreas Kempffer's autobiography, published for the first time based on the Giessen manuscript, introduced and explained (published Leipzig 1880)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kaempfer, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas Kempffer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist, pastor and Hebraist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1743
Place of death Billertshausen