Gustav Moritz Redslob

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Gustav Moritz Redslob (born May 21, 1804 in Querfurt , † February 28, 1882 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , Hebraist , philosopher , philologist and teacher .

Life

Redslob's father was a teacher at the city school and sexton at the city church in Querfurt. Redslob attended the cathedral high school in Merseburg and the Latin secondary school of the orphanage in Halle (Saale) . From here he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1831 he completed his habilitation there at the philosophical faculty and in 1834 became an associate professor. In 1841 he was appointed professor of philosophy and biblical philology at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg . On the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Luther in 1846, he received the theological doctorate from the University of Leipzig.

Redslob was married to Auguste Pauline Schimmel, the couple had two sons and three daughters.

Title page of Redslob's dissertation (Leipzig, 1831)

Redslob had extremely varied interests and thereby acquired a wealth of knowledge in various fields. He pursued the idea in his theological studies, that in the Bible had indicated "some secret political system of the Hebrew nation," "a certain secret history," but this kabbalistic secret wisdom had been concealed. That is why the Pentateuch presented these philosophical sentences in myths and a "shell language" ran through the entire Old Testament, which reached into the New Testament, was also passed down to Jesus and whose ciphers Judas Ischarioth had kept in his γλωσσόκομον. The task of science is now to bring to light "this double religious concept" which runs through the entire Bible. The literal interpretation is sufficient for the usual expression of the Bible, but the secret sense requires allegorism . This approach was used by Redslob in his “ Apocalypsis. Leaves for Pneumatic Christianity and Mystical Explanation of the Scriptures ”, B. I, 1859 laid down. He continued this idea in the scriptures: “ The mystery, or the secret meaning of the passage in 2 Cor. 12, 1-10 "1860; " The Canonical Gospels as Secret Canonical Legislation " 1869; “ The mystery of the evangelical pericope Matth. 13, 1-23, Marc. 4, 1-20, Luc. 8, 1–25 "1870 and" The Condemnation of Simony in Mystical Speech Form "1874.

Redslob also worked on the concept of nabi , the origin of the Passover festival , and the Old Testament names of Israel. Together with Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann, he founded a " General People's Biblical Lexicon ".

He began his philological research with a study of the meaning of the Hebrew particle כּיִ (ki). Etymological studies of other Hebrew words followed, but his views are now outdated. In 1837, Redslob obtained one of the earliest academic editions of the Koran by revising Gustav Leberecht Flügel's text from 1834.

Redslob turned a particular interest in exploring the Phoenician trade routes. So he tried in 1849 in his work “ Tartessus. A contribution to the history of the Phoenician trade “to provide evidence that Tartessus was a city under the pillars of Hercules and that it is identical to today's Tortosa , not far from the mouth of the Ebro . He claimed that the traces of the Phoenician trade routes led primarily along the rivers of Spain and France and that the Phoenicians gradually came to Amber Land ( Schleswig-Holstein ) in this way , combining Thule with the Swedish island of Tylön off Halmstad .

Redslob created an index for volumes 1 to 30 of the magazine of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft . He also contributed 34 articles to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

He is credited with the authorship of a Masonic pamphlet by the pseudonym Jannes Jambres Missiporus . Redslob had been a member of the Hamburg " Loge zum Pelikan" since 1853 and since 1865 an honorary member of the Johannisloge Zur Goldenen Kugel .

Fonts (selection)

  • 34 articles written by Gustav Moritz Redslob in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  • 1831 De praecepto musico למנצח על הגתית (la-menaṣṣēaḥ ʿal hag-gittît) in inscriptionibus psalmorum VIII.LXXXI et LXXXIV conspicuo dissertatio. Dissertation OCLC 682374016
  • 1836 The Levirate marriage among the Hebrews: studied from an archaeological and practical point of view. OCLC 27391542
  • 1837 Assessment of Ewald's grammar and Maurer's course. OCLC 233994260
  • 1837 Coranus Arabice. based on an edition by Gustav Flügel OCLC 154164683
  • 1839 About the supposedly relative basic meaning of the Hebrew particles כּיִ (ki) OCLC 246261746
  • 1839 The concept of the nabi or the so-called prophet among the Hebrews. OCLC 29640576
  • 1840 Linguistic treatises on theology. OCLC 30480623
  • 1842 The integrity of the body at Hosea 7, 4-10 questioned. OCLC 27373285
  • 1846 The Creation Apologue: Genesis 2, 4-3, 24 explained in detail and critically examined: at the same time as an exegetical concern in the question of symbols. OCLC 31617724
  • 1846 The Old Testament names of the population of the real and ideal Islamic state viewed etymologically. OCLC 17350934
  • 1846 General People's Biblical Lexicon. together with Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann OCLC 216162896
  • 1849 Tartessus: a contribution to the history of Phoenician-Spanish trade, as well as to ancient geography in general. OCLC 6629171
  • 1855 Thule. The Phoenician trade routes to the north, especially to the Amber Land, as well as the journey of Pytheas from Massilien. OCLC 6623251
  • 1855 On the age and moral-religious character of the older and proper Freemasonry: letters to H. Dr. A. Knobel. On the occasion of the Hengstenberg's deist-sensitive attacks on the same. under the pseudonym Jannis Jambres Missiporus, OCLC 46281465 (online at urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10446202-9 )
  • 1856 The biblical information on the foundation and reason for the Passover celebration viewed from the allegorical-cabalistic point of view. OCLC 457608621
  • 1859 Apocalypsis: Sheets for Pneumatic Christianity and Mystical Explanation of the Scriptures. Volume I. OCLC 800999892
  • 1860/1861 volume 1 and 1863/1864 volume 2: The mystery: or the secret meaning of the passage 2 Cor. 12, 1-10. OCLC 39995862
  • 1870 The mystery, ie the secret canon of the evangelical pericope Matth. 13.1-23. Mark. 4.1-20. Luk. 8.1-15. OCLC 52596944

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  1. ↑ γλωσσόκομον = purse, cash register, cf. ( Joh 12,6  EU ) and ( Joh 13,29  EU )
  2. ↑ Tylön Island on Google Maps
  3. ↑ General Handbook of Freemasonry . Volume 1, Brockhaus, 1863, p. 32
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graupenstein : History of the St. Johannis Lodge to the golden ball in Hamburg: Handwriting for brothers. Wulff, Hamburg, 1870, p. 137


personal data
SURNAME Redslob, Gustav Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Missiporus, Jannes Jambres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, Hebraist, philosopher, philologist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Querfurt
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1882
Place of death Hamburg