Georg David Kypke
Georg David Kypke (born October 23, 1724 in Neukirchen (later in the Regenwalde district ), Pomerania ; † May 28, 1779 in Königsberg ) was a German orientalist , philosopher and scholar of the Old Testament in Königsberg i. Pr.
Life
He was the third of seven children of the evangelical pastor in Neukirchen and nephew of the philosopher Johann David Kypke . Like his lifelong friend Immanuel Kant , Kypke attended the Collegium Fridericianum . In 1738 he enrolled at the Albertus University in Königsberg . He switched to the University of Halle , where he studied the English language with Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten . After receiving his master's degree in the Pietistic Hall in May 1744 , he returned to Königsberg. Professor for oriental languages since 1746 , Kypke was appointed to the chair of the Albertina in 1755 . At the same time entrusted with the supervision of the synagogue , he attended all services. Over a passage of the Alenu prayer incriminated by Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia) as "anti-Christian" , Kypke got into a dispute with the Jewish community, which Moses Mendelssohn helped. Kypke also taught English at the Albertina. He read some of his lectures in English and translated a selection of John Locke's essay Concerning Human Understanding (Hartung, 1755). Johann Gottfried Herder and Gottlieb Schlegel heard his lectures. Kypke, who remained unmarried, died at the age of 54. In the year before his death he had donated the Kypkeanum , in which 13 students could live freely. For this he left 10,000 thalers. The residential monastery was built in 1797 at Hinterlomse 16. The New Synagogue later stood on the Lomse . Many of Kypke's writings are in Thorn .
Works
- Dissertatio philologica recensionem ms. libri rabbinici exhibens . Koenigsberg 1746
- The Hebrew and Chaldean grammar of the famous D. Johann Andreas Danzens, translated into German and explained with frequent comments . Wroclaw 1752
- Vocabularium Hebraicum in Genesis secundum capitum ordinem digestum et in usum iuventutis tam scholasticae quam academicae editum . Koenigsberg 1754
- with Johann Daniel Dannies: Vocabularium in Novi Foederis libros . Koenigsberg 1758
- Detailed beginnings of Hebrew grammar, formerly based on the Danish doctrines by JJ Rau, now improved by Kypke . Koenigsberg 1780
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg David Kypke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Draft biographical article in The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers
- Bibliography (Marburg)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kypke, Georg David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1724 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neukirchen , Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1779 |
| Place of death | Koenigsberg i. Pr. |