Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried

Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried

Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried also: Carl Siegfried (born January 22, 1830 in Magdeburg , † January 9, 1903 in Jena ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Karl Gustav Adolf was the eldest son of the building councilor Karl Wilhelm Siegfried and his wife Laurentia Leidloff. He attended the Domgymnasium in Magdeburg , began theological and philological studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1849 , which he briefly continued in 1851 at the University of Bonn and finished in Halle in 1853. His formative teachers were Julius Müller , August Tholuck , Hermann Hupfeld , Karl Bernhard Moll , as well as Gottfried Bernhardy , Ludwig Ross , Friedrich Ritschl and Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker . In April 1856 he passed his first theological exam in Halle and passed the senior teacher examination in the same year. After several months of attending the royal theological seminar in Berlin, he passed his second theological exam in Magdeburg in September 1857. In 1857 he had completed his probationary year as a teacher at the grammar school of the monastery Our Dear Women in Magdeburg and in 1858 he became a teacher at the grammar school in Guben .

In 1859 he earned his doctorate in philosophy in Halle with the treatise De sacrificorum Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum et orginis et rituum similitudine , in 1860 he switched to the cathedral grammar school in Magdeburg and in 1865 he became a high school professor for Hebrew, religion and history at the Pforta state school , where he also received the position of deacon. In 1875 he got a full professorship at the theological faculty of the University of Jena for the Old Testament, an honorary doctorate in theology and the position of director of the Jena theological seminar. In 1885 he was appointed to the church council of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and in 1892 to the secret church council. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the Salana. He also became dean of the theological faculty and was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1882 and in the summer semester of 1895 . On April 1, 1901, Siegfried retired for health reasons.

The focus of Siegfried's work was a comparative historical interpretation of the Old Testament . He published many of his articles in the theological journals of his time. He wrote a number of articles in the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Siegfried married Anna Schneller on October 2, 1860, daughter of the pastor in Guben Johann August Schneller (born December 26, 1798 in Naumburg; † September 28, 1878) and his wife Ernestine Mattich, who was married on May 1, 1825.

Works (selection)

• The Hebrew explanations of the words of Philo and the traces of their influence on the church fathers. Magdeburg 1863 ( online )
• De inscriptione Gerbitana. 1863
• Spinoza as a critic and interpreter of the Old Testament. Naumburg 1867 ( online )
• Philo of Alexandria viewed as an interpreter of the Old Testament, in himself and according to his historical influence. In addition to studies on the grace of Philos. Jena 1875; (Reprint Aalen 1970)
• Analecta Rabbinica ad NT et Patres ecclesiasticos spectantia. 1875 (with Heinrich Bertram)
• The task of the history of Old Testament interpretation in the present. Jena 1876
• Textbook of the New Hebrew Language and Literature. Karlsruhe & Leipzig, 1884, 2nd vol. (With Hermann Leberecht Strack );
• Eusebii canonum epitome ex Dionysii Telmaharensis chronico petita. Leipzig 1884 (ed.)
• The theological and historical consideration of the Old Testament. Frankfurt am Main 1889
• Hebrew Dictionary of the Old Testament. Leipzig 1893 (with Bernhard Stade)
• Book of Knowledge of Truth. Strasbourg 1893 (ed.)
• Ceremonial speech given in the University Church of Jena on the award of academic prizes on June 15, 1895. Jena 1895
• Contributions to the doctrine of the compound sentence in New Hebrew. 1897
• The books of the Chronicle and Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, translated and explained. Goettingen 1902

Essays

• Philo and the traditional text of the LXX. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld : Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig 1873, vol. 16 p. 217 ( online ); P. 411 ( online ); P. 522 ( online )
• On the criticism of the writings of Philos. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig, 1874, vol. 17, p. 562 ( online )
• Gad Meni and Gad Manasse. In: Karl August von Hase : Yearbook for Protestant Theology. Leipzig 1875, 1st year, pp. 356–367 ( online )
• Jewish Hellenism. A review of its historical development with reference to the latest research within its field. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig 1875, Vol. 18, pp. 465-489
• Rabbinical analects. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. Leipzig, 1876, Vol. 2, pp. 476-480 ( online )
• An Arab crucifixion story. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. (JpTh) Leipzig 1877, Vol. 3, pp. 537-539 ( online )
• Bible and Science. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. (JpTh) Leipzig 1881, Vol. 7, pp. 1–59 ( online )
• Belief in gods and belief in God in ancient Israel. In: Protestant church newspaper. 1882, no.2
• On the history of the new Hebrew lexicography. In: Bernhard Stade : Journal for Old Testament Science. (ZatW) Giessen 1882, Vol. 2, pp. 177-192
• The Hebrew Explanations of Words by Josephus. In: Bernhard Stade: Journal for Old Testament Science. (ZatW) Giessen 1883, Vol. 3, pp. 32-55
• Midrash about Hieronymus. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. Leipzig 1883, Vol. 9, pp. 346–352 ( online )
• The Trial Bible (OT). In: Protestant church newspaper. 1884, no.38
• The pronunciation of Hebrew in Jerome. In: Bernhard Stade: Journal for Old Testament Science. (ZatW) Gießen 1884, Vol. 4, pp. 34–83 ( online )
• Miscellanea. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig 1883, Vol. 26, pp. 235-239, Leipzig 1884, Vol. 27, pp. 355-359
• Sample from the Makamen of Immanuel Romi. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. (JpTh) Leipzig, 1885, Vol. 11, pp. 289–298 ( online )
• Significance and fate of Hellenism in the life of the Jewish people. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. Leipzig 1886, Vol. 12, pp. 228-253 ( online )
• Latest elementary Hebrew grammars. In: General Austrian literary newspaper. 1886, no.7
• The NT in the Hebrew garb. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. (JpTh) Leipzig 1887, Vol. 13, pp. 160-169 ( online )
• Theological studies and examinations. In: Protestant church newspaper. 1887 No. 37, 188 No. 3
• Milk and honey. In: Protestant church newspaper. 1887 No. 15
• Correspondence between Goethe and V. Diez. In: Ludwig Geiger: Goethe Yearbook. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main, 1890, Vol. 11, pp. 24–41 ( online )
• Prophetic missionary ideas and the Jewish missionary endeavors. In: Karl August von Hase: Yearbook for Protestant Theology. Leipzig 1890, Vol. 16, pp. 435–453 ( online )
• Jewish Hellenism. In: Allgemeine Zeitschrift des Judenthums. 1890 July 11th and 18th.
• Thomas Aquinas as interpreter of the ATs. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig 1894, Vol. 37, pp. 603-625
• About the writing attributed to Philo about the contemplative life. In: Protestant church newspaper. 1896, no. 42
• Contributions to the teaching of compound sentences in New Hebrew. In: Semitic Studies, Festschrift for Kohut. 1897, pp. 543-556
• Position error in Mandelkerne's concordance with the AT. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Leipzig 1897, Vol. 40, pp. 465-467
• The episode of Jewish Hellenism in the post-exilic development of Judaism. In: Yearbook for Jewish History and Literature. Berlin 1900, Vol. 3 pp. 42–60 ( online )

literature

• Bruno Baentsch:  Siegfried, Karl Adolf . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 18, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1906, pp. 320–323.
• Bruno Baentsch: In memory of Karl Siegfried. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. (ZwTh) Leipzig 1903, vol. 46, pp. 580-589 at InternetArchive
• Annual theological report. Schwetschke, Berlin, 1904, (year 1903), p. 1198
• Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. University Library, Giessen, 2008 (Volume: Saage - Szymanski, Online )
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02140-6 , Vol. 8, p. 250

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried  - Sources and full texts

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