Carl Paul Caspari

Carl Paul Caspari

Carl Paul Caspari (born February 8, 1814 in Dessau , † April 11, 1892 in Kristiania, today Oslo ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and orientalist .

Life

The son of Jewish parents attended the Jewish school and grammar school in his hometown. In Leipzig he attended lectures on the oriental languages Arabic and Persian . He was introduced to the New Testament through his friends and fellow students Karl Graul and Franz Delitzsch . He was baptized for Pentecost in 1838 . In the years 1839/1840 he studied a. a. with Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg theology . In 1842 he became a doctor of philosophy in Leipzig . In 1844 he published a two-volume Arabic grammar. An appointment as associate professor in Königsberg to succeed Christoph Hävernick, who died early, was thwarted because of his positive attitude towards the separated Lutherans and the resulting conflicts with the Prussian state. In 1847 the Norwegian theologian Gisle Johnson brought him to the University of Kristiania as a lecturer , where he received a professorship in 1857. He repeatedly refused calls to Germany, including in 1867 to Erlangen as the successor to his friend Delitzsch in order to continue working in Norway . He was particularly committed to refuting the thesis of the Danish pastor and theologian Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , who saw the highest authority in Christ, placed it above the Bible and thus violated the Lutheran principle of sola scriptura ("only Scripture alone") . He was also president of the Association for the Conversion of Norwegian Jews and a member of the Biblical Commission. Until 1891 he was busy creating a new translation of the Old Testament into Norwegian. Death overtook him while translating the New Testament. Caspari was married to Marie Karoline Constanze v. Zezschwitz, the sister of the Erlangen professor Gerhard von Zezschwitz . He had ten children with her, of whom three sons and two daughters survived.

Works

• Grammatica arabica , Leipzig 1844
• Contributions to the introduction to the book Jesaia , Berlin 1848
• About the Syrian-Ephraimite War under Jotham and Ahas , Kristiania 1849
• About Micah and his prophetic writing , Kristiania 1852
• As an introduction to the book of Daniel , Leipzig 1869
• Sources on the history of the symbol of baptism and the rule of faith , Kristiania 1866–69, 2 vol.
• Sources on the history of the baptismal symbol , Kristiania 1875
• Old and new sources on the history of the symbol of baptism and the rule of faith , Kristiania 1879
• Church history anecdota along with new editions of patristic and ecclesiastical medieval writings , Kristiania 1883
• An Augustine mistakenly included Homilia de sacrilegiis , 1886
• Letters, treatises and sermons from the last two centuries of ecclesiastical antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages , 1891
• The book of Job in Jerome's translation , Kristiania, 1893
• The belief in the Trinity of God demonstrated in the church of the first Christian century , Leipzig 1894
• Den aeldste kirkeordning overaat og oplyst , 1894.

literature

• Gustaf Dalman :  Caspari, Karl Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 461 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  CASPARI, Carl Paul. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 947-948.
• Caspari, Carl Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 21-23.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Paul Caspari in the catalog of the German National Library