Christoph August Bode

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Christoph August Bode (born December 28, 1722 in Wernigerode ; † March 7, 1796 in Helmstedt ) was a German university professor, philologist and orientalist .

Life

Christoph August Bode was born as the son of Wernigerode city judge Albert Bode and his wife Katharine Gertrud, daughter of the local mayor of the mills. He had sixteen siblings, some of whom died in childhood.

He received his school education from private tutors and at the city school in Wernigerode and from 1739 in the Berge monastery with Abbot Johann Adam Steinmetz ; there he heard lectures from Johann Friedrich Hähn , Elias Caspar Reichard and Christian Gottfried Struensee . He not only dealt very intensively with the Latin and Greek languages, but also with the Hebrew grammar.

Christoph August Bode studied philology with a focus on oriental languages at the University of Halle under the direction of Christian Benedikt Michaelis and his son Johann David Michaelis, as well as lectures on Hebrew grammar with Georg Friedrich Meier . For his theological and philosophical studies, he attended lectures by Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , Jacob Gabriel Wolff and Johann Georg Knapp . In 1746 he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig with Johann Christian Hebenstreit in Chaldean , Syriac and Arabic and practiced preaching with Romanus Teller ; In Leipzig, as in Halle, he made extensive use of the local libraries, and in Leipzig Professor Christoph Wolle made his extensive private library available to him. Christoph August Bode returned to the University of Halle in 1747, where he completed his habilitation with De primaeva linguae Hebraeae antiqitate and gave lectures on Hebrew grammar and individual books from the Old Testament .

In 1749 he got a job as a private lecturer at the University of Helmstedt and continued his lectures there. In 1754 he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Helmstedt.

After learning various Semitic dialects, he set about comparing the Oriental versions of the New Testament with the original Greek text, preferably in the London polyglot . He particularly checked the collations created by John Mill and Johann Albrecht Bengel .

He had compared the Ethiopian translation of Matthew with the Greek original and had a Latin translation of the Persian Matthew published in 1750, the Persian Mark , Luke , and John in 1751 and a revision of the Arabic translation of Mark published by Thomas Erpenius in 1752 . This was followed by the Latin translation of the Ethiopian translation of the New Testament from 1752 to 1755. In addition, the translation of some passages from the Turkish version of Matthew appeared in 1752 and in 1757 the Latin translation of the first four chapters of Matthew and the Latin translation of the first four chapters of Matthew from Armenian.

In 1763 he became a full professor of oriental languages at the University of Helmstedt.

In the period from 1767 to 1769 his final work Pseudocritia Millio-Bengeliana was published , in which he published the results of all previous work and in which he published all Syrian, Arabic, Persian, Ethiopian and Armenian variants of an exact one, published by John Mill and Johann Albrecht Bengel Under examination.

After his death, he bequeathed the writings he edited and his library to the University of Helmstedt, including an edition of the Koran by Abraham Hinckelmann , which Christoph August Bode had provided with a Latin interlinear version (a translation written between the lines of the foreign-language original text ) .

He was married since 1776, his wife died shortly before him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ ADB: Bode, Christoph August - Wikisource. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ German biography: Bode, Christoph August - German biography. Retrieved June 19, 2018 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Döring: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: depicted according to their life and work, p. 126 ff. JKG Wagner, 1831 ( google.de [accessed on June 22, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Otto Wigand: Wigand's Conversations Lexicon for all stands, p. 487 . Wigand, 1846 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2018]).
  5. ^ Wiedeburg, Friedrich, August: Christoph August Bode, professor of oriental languages ​​at the University of Helmstedt. [Memorandum] . ( tu-braunschweig.de [accessed on June 22, 2018]).
  6. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800, p. 441 ff. Fleischer, 1802 ( google.de [accessed on June 22, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Nekrolog: for the year ... containing news from d. Life of strange Germans who died in this year . Perthes, 1800 ( google.de [accessed June 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bode, Christoph August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodius, Christopherus Augustus; Bode, Christophorus Augustus; Boden, Christoph August; Boderus, Christophorus Augustus; Bode, Christian August; Bodius, Christophorus Augustus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, philologist, linguist and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1796
Place of death Helmstedt