Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel

Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel (born March 16, 1742 in Feuchtwangen ; † February 12, 1776 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ) was a German orientalist and Protestant theologian .

Life

The son of the chaplain Georg Ludwig Vogel and his wife Anna Maria Barbara Friess had already lost his father in their early youth, so that the mother had to take care of his education and that of his brothers. Initially he attended Latin school in his hometown, where his uncle Fries watched over his education. Then he frequented the grammar school in Ansbach, where he was able to further develop his early intellectual talents in scientific education. Vogel continued the study of ancient, especially oriental, languages, which he had grown fond of, at the University of Helmstedt . There he defended his treatise under Wilhelm Abraham Teller's chairmanship in 1764: De dialecto poetico divinorum carminum Veteris Testamenti .

Vogel then continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he received his master's degree and then gave public lectures at the University of Halle . At that time (1766) fall his astute explanations of some passages of the Pentateuch and the answer to the question whether the Hebrew language deserves to be called rich or poor. In Halle Vogel was an adjunct of the philosophical faculty and in 1773 associate professor of philosophy. Ongoing studies had shaken his health. To restore this, he took a trip to Altdorf in 1775, accompanied by his brother Benedict Christian Vogel , where he died of a slow eating fever.

Vogel used his thorough knowledge of the oriental languages ​​and their literature especially for the exegesis and criticism of the biblical documents. As early as 1766 he accompanied the variants in a Hebrew codex in the library in Helmstedt with critical explanations. In 1767 he provided a paraphrase of the Proverbs of Solomon and in 1771 of the prophetic books of the Old Testament. From the works of older interpreters of the Bible, including Albert Schultens (1686–1750), Hugo Grotius , Adrian Reland (1676–1718) and Ludwig Capellus (1585–1658), he gave useful excerpts, accompanied by historically critical explanations. With additions and comments he expanded in a new edition of Oeder's free investigations into some books of the Old Testament in 1771 .

His brothers were:

• Georg Wilhelm Vogel (1743–1813), lawyer and mayor of Jena ;
• Benedict Christian Vogel (1745–1825), physician, botanist and university lecturer in Altdorf near Nuremberg .

Works

• Diss. De dialecto poetico divinorum carminum Veteris Testamenti. Helmstedt 1764
• Diss. De versionis Codicis Hebraei moderamea contra Ven. Meintelium. Hall 1765
• Diss. De locis quibusdam Pentateuchi. Hall 1766
• Diss. Num lingna Hebraea dives an pauper dici mereatur? Hall 1766
• Diss. Observationes criticae in varias quasdam lectiones Codicis Hebraei scripti Bibliothecae Academiae Helmstadiensis. Hall 1766
• Diss. Inscriptiones Psalmorum serius additas videri. Hall 1767
• Francisci Vatabli annotationes in Psalmos, subjunctis H. Grotii notis, quibus observationes exegeticas criticas adspersit. Praemissa est praefatio JA Noesselt. Hall 1767
• Diss. Do matribus lectionis librariorum arbitrio olim relictes. Hall 1767
• The proverbs of Solomon rewritten etc. Leipzig 1767
• Diss. Institutio Hebraica in scholis suscipienda. Hall 1767
• Diss. Interpretatio grammatica Cap. LIII. Jesaiae. Hall 1768
• Hadr. Relandi Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum; recensuit et animadversionibus Ugolianis, Ravianis auxit. Hall 1769
• Alb. Schultensii versio integra Proverbiorum Salomonis, et in eadam Commentarius, quem in compendium redegit et observationibus criticis auxit. Hall 1769
• Beginnings of the Hebrew language. Hall 1769
• Free research on some books of the Old Testament, by the author of the Christian free research on the so-called Revelation of St. John (GL Oeder). With encores and comments. Hall 1771
• Description of the prophet Isaiah. Halle 1771, 2nd part (under the title: Paragraphs of the poetic books of the Old Testament) Halle 1771, 3rd part contains the prophecies of the prophet Ezechil. Halle 1772, 4th part contains the prophecies of the twelve minor prophets. Hall 1773
• Alb. Schltensii Commentarius in libium Jobi, in compendium redegit et observationes criticas atque exegeticas adspersit Tom. I et II. Halle 1773
• Ludovici Capelli Critica sacra, sive de variis, quae in sacris Veteris Testamenti libris occurrunt lectionibus Libxi VI. Receensuit, multisque animadversionibus auxit. Tom. I et II. Halle 1775–1778 (JG Scharfenberg obtained the 2nd volume after Vogel's death)
• Hugonis Grotii Annotationes in Vetus Testamentum emendatius edidit, et brevibus complurium locorum dilucidationibus auxit. Tom. I. Halle 1775. Post mortem b. Vogelii continuavit Jo. Chrph. Doederlein, Theol. D. Tom. II et III. Hall 1776

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 597, ( online )
• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Vogel, Georg Johann Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 109 f.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, vol. 14, p. 265, ( online )
• Carl Joseph Bouginé: Handbook of the general Litterargeschichte after Heumann's plan. Orell-Geßner-Füßli & Comp., Zurich, 1792, vol. 5, p. 42, ( online )
• Clemens Alois Baader: Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg and Leipzig, 1824, vol. 1, part 2, p. 300, ( online )

Web links

• Entry on Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ known here are the brothers Georg Wilhelm Vogel (Saxon-Weimar Chamber Council) and the later professor in Altdorf and Munich Benedict Christian Vogel
2. ↑ see on this the necrology of his brother In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 1825. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau, 1827, 3rd year, vol. 1, p. 654, ( online )