Gustav Bickell

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Gustav Wilhelm Hugo Bickell (born July 7, 1838 in Kassel , † January 15, 1906 in Vienna ) was a German orientalist . He was considered one of the best experts on the Syrian language and wrote numerous writings on Syrian manuscripts, the Syrian Church Fathers and the Old Testament.

Life

His father Johann Wilhelm Bickell (1799–1848) was Professor of Canon Law at the University of Marburg , most recently Minister of Justice of Hessen-Kassel . Gustav Bickell studied theology and linguistics in Marburg and Halle from 1857 and became a private lecturer for Semitic and Indo-European languages ​​in Marburg in 1862, the following year he taught the same subjects at the University of Giessen . In the hymns of the Syrian ascetic Ephrem , which he transcribed in London, he found for himself a clear testimony to the Immaculate Conception of Mary, as it is also taught by the Catholic Church. As a result, he converted to the Catholic Church on November 5, 1865. After his conversion he entered the Fulda seminary and was ordained a priest in 1867.

He then taught oriental languages ​​at the Münster Academy and became an associate professor in 1871. At this time he became a staunch advocate of the papal doctrine of infallibility . In 1874 he became professor for Christian archeology and Semitic languages at the University of Innsbruck . In 1891 he was appointed to the University of Vienna , where he was professor of Semitic languages. In 1892 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1901 he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Bickell was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts

  • De indole ac ratione versionis Alexandrinae in interpretando libri Jobi , Marburg 1862.
  • S. Ephraemi Syri Carmina Nisibena , Leipzig 1866 (With an introduction to the metric laws of Syrian poetry).
  • Outline of the Hebrew grammar , Leipzig 1869–70.
  • Reasons for the infallibility of the head of the church , Münster 1870.
  • Conspectus rei Syrorum litterariæ , Münster 1871.
  • Mass and Pascha , Mainz 1872.
  • Writings and poems by Syrian church fathers ( BKV Volume 71/72), Kempten.
  • S. Isaaci Antiocheni opera omnia , 2 volumes, Gießen 1873–77.
  • Kalilag and Damnag , Leipzig 1876.
  • Metrices biblicae regulæ exemplis illustratae , Innsbruck 1879.
  • Synodi brixinenses saec. quindecimi , Innsbruck 1880.
  • Carmina VT metrice , Innsbruck 1882.
  • Seals of the Hebrews , 3 volumes, Innsbruck 1882–84.
  • The Preacher (Koheleth) on the value of existence , Innsbruck 1886.
  • The book Job , Vienna 1894.

Honors

Since 1876 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student union AV Austria Innsbruck . In 1921 a relief portrait of Bickell by Karl Nickmann was unveiled in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna. In 1922 the Bickellgasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the scientist.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Bickell  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 40.
  2. ↑ https://www.oecv.at/Biolex/Detail/10403200
personal data
SURNAME Bickell, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bickell, Gustav Wilhelm Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1906
Place of death Vienna