Bernhard Weiss (theologian)
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Karl Philipp Bernhard Weiss (born June 20, 1827 in Königsberg , † January 14, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian . He was an exegete and researcher of the text history of the New Testament .
Life
Weiss began studying theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of Hochhemia in 1844 . He moved to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and later to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin .
In 1852 he became an associate professor in Königsberg. In 1862 he followed the call of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel to a chair ; there he was rector in 1876/77 . In 1877 he moved to Berlin. In 1880 he was appointed senior consistorial councilor.
In 1902 Weiss published his translation of the New Testament, adapting Martin Luther's translation to the text-critical and linguistic knowledge he had gained in the meantime. His text-critical work has largely been forgotten today. In years of work he examined thousands of variants in the uncial manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and evaluated them according to text-critical and exegetical principles. Despite different methodology, the resulting text is remarkably similar to that of Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort . In his Novum Testamentum Graece , Eberhard Nestle used the Greek white text as a basis (alongside those from Westcott and Hort and from Konstantin von Tischendorf ).
He married Hermine Luise Pauline Dewitz von Woyna (* March 10, 1836, † April 21, 1893), a daughter of Major General Johann Wilhelm Leopold Dewitz von Woyna . Their son Johannes (1863-1914) was also a New Testament exegete.
Works
- Textbook of Biblical Theology of the New Testament , 1868; 7th, verb. Edition 1903
- The life of Jesus , 1882, 4th ed. 1902
- Textbook of the Introduction to the New Testament , 1886; 3rd ed. 1897
- The new Testament. Corrected text , 3 vols., 1902
- The sources of the Gospel of Luke , 1907
literature
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling : Weiss, Karl Philipp Bernhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 666-672.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bibliography by Bernhard Weiss ( Memento from September 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 281
- ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiss, Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weiss, Karl Philipp Bernhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar, university professor and rector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |