Franz Zorell

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Franz Zorell SJ (born September 29, 1863 in Ravensburg , † December 14, 1947 in Rome ) was a German exegete and lexicographer specializing in Volapük , Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Georgian and Hebrew.

Life

After attending the Stella Matutina with the Jesuits for four years and then the grammar school in his hometown for two years, he studied oriental studies for one year at the University of Tübingen . In 1882 he completed his studies in Volapük, where he became one of the world's specialists and wrote the text of the Volapük hymn. On October 1, 1884, he joined the Jesuits in the novitiate of Exaten near Roermond and completed his studies in philosophy and theology in Ditton Hall ( Borough of Halton ) and Valkenburg aan de Geul . He studied Greek in Berlin and published the Lexicon Graecum Novi Testamenti , to which he devoted twelve years from 1899 and which finally appeared in 1911. Then he considered creating a second biblical lexicon: until his death he worked on the Lexicon Hebraicum and Aramaicum Veteris Testamenti , a Latin-Hebrew dictionary that he could not complete. In 1899 he became an editor at Scripturae Sacrae . He translated the Psalms from Hebrew into Latin (Psalterium ex Hebraeo Latinum) . In 1928 he became professor of Armenian and Georgian at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico , where he stayed until 1944. He spoke twenty languages, ancient and modern.

Fonts (selection)

  • Chronica ecclesiae arbelensis ex idiomate syriaco in latinum vertit . Rome 1927, OCLC 6740195 .
  • Grammar of the old Georgian Bible translation. With text samples and dictionary . Rome 1930, OCLC 878251128 .
  • Psalterium ex Hebraeo Latinum . Rome 1939, OCLC 1186955 .
  • Lexicon Hebraicum et Aramaicum Veteris Testamenti . Rome 1954, OCLC 934912608 .

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SURNAME Zorell, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German exegete and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1947
Place of death Rome