Christoph Drechsler

Christoph (Moritz Bernhard Julius) Drechsler (born August 11, 1804 in Nuremberg , † February 19, 1850 in Munich ) was a German orientalist and Lutheran theologian.

Life

As the son of the pastor at St. Jakob (Nuremberg) , Drechsler attended the Nuremberg grammar school. From 1820 to 1824 he studied Protestant theology and Oriental languages at the Friedrich Alexander University . First he was Renonce of the fraternity fraternity Concordia. In 1821 he participated in the foundation of the Corps Bavaria Erlangen . He completed his habilitation in Erlangen in 1825 and became a private lecturer . In 1833 he was appointed associate professor for oriental languages. He gave lectures on the Arabic language and the Syriac language , on books of the Old Testament and on Sanskrit . When Friedrich Rückert went to Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , Drechsler took his place as full professor in 1841 . In 1843/44 he was Vice Rector of the University of Erlangen. had been, he had to give up his teaching post in 1848 . After his doctorate in D. theol. he dedicated the Isaiah commentary (planned in three parts) to the Erlangen faculty , the end of which he never lived to see. A broken man and a private scholar in Munich, he died of typhus . Its importance lay above all in the fact that "he tried to give the old church view of the Bible in relation to the Old Testament a permanent foundation from the scientific material of the modern age." (Siegfried)

Works

• Foundation for the scientific construction of the entire body of words and forms, first of all the Semitic languages , preferably the Indo-European languages ​​as well , 1830
• The unity and authenticity of Genesis, or explanation of those appearances in Genesis which are asserted against its Mosaic origin , 1838
• About the two names of God Jehovah and Elohim and their use in general
• The Prophet Isaiah , 2 parts, 1845 and 1849

See also

• List of corps student rectors

source

• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Wood turner, Christoph Moritz Bernhard Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 387-391.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The Concordia to Erlangen 1820-1821 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 30 (1985), p. 42.
2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1960, 20/11.
3. ↑ Speech at the introduction to the academic senate: Symbolarum ad doctrinam de linguae hebraicae vocalium mutationibus particula I et II (1842)
4. ↑ Hermann Drechsler (Rector's Speeches HKM)