Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche

Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (born November 28, 1766 in Kirchtimke near Bremen , † October 7, 1833 in Gießen ) was a German Protestant theologian and classical philologist .

Life

Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche was the son of a Protestant clergyman. From 1785 to 1788 he studied theology and philology at the universities of Jena and Göttingen , where the ancient scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne was his teacher. After receiving his doctorate in 1794, Pfannkuche worked as a theological repetitionist at the University of Göttingen from 1797 and in 1798 went to the Johanneum in Bremen as a sub-rector .

At Easter 1803, Pfannkuche moved to the University of Giessen as a professor for the Old Testament and Oriental languages. He particularly represented the Greek language and literature , which at that time were not yet established as a separate subject in Gießen. Under the direction of Professor Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , the Classical Philology seminar was established in 1812 , where Pfannkuche held lectures and exercises until his death. In his research, Pfannkuche was particularly concerned with the Old Testament and the languages ​​of the Orient.

In addition to his university duties, Pfannkuche also became a professor at the newly established philosophical high school in Giessen. On May 25, 1812 he was awarded the character of a vice director of the institution.

Works

• Specimen observationum philologicarum et criticarum ad quaedam psalmorum loca (Bremen 1791)
• Exercitationes in Ecclesiastae Salomoni vulgo tributi locum vexatissimum c. 11.7–12.7 (Göttingen 1794)
• Something about a few passages of the new Greek version of the Old Testament (1796) in the St. Marcus Library in Venice , in: Johann Gottfried Eichhorns Allgemeine Bibliothek der Biblischen Literatur , Vol. 7, pp. 193-203.
  • This investigation concerns the Gen. 22, 2 and Song of Songs 7, 2, in which there are a few noticeable deviations in Graecus Venetus .
• Printed Anglo-Saxon translations of the Old Testament (1797), in: Göttingen Library of the Latest Theological Literature , Vol. 3, St. 4
• About the Palestinian national language in the age of Christ and the Apostles (1798), in: Eichhorns Allgemeine Bibliothek der Biblischen Literatur , Vol. 8, pp. 365-480.
  • Apart from many indefensible and out of date things, this essay had the merit of having for the first time correctly presented in broad outline the process of the suppression of ancient Hebrew by an Aramaic dialect in the period from exile to the last century BC.
• The prayer formula of the Messiah students Matth. 6, 9-13 and Luc. 11, 2-4; a contribution to the historical interpretation of the New Testament (1800), in: Eichhorns Allgemeine Bibliothek der Biblischen Literatur , Vol. 10, pp. 846–878.
  • In this treatise, however, the biblical passages mentioned in the title from rabbinical parallels are explained with too little criticism.
• De codicum Mss.hebr.VT et versionum chaldaicarum in lectionibus antimasorethicis consensu , University program, Giessen 1803

Since then, Pfannkuche's literary activity seems to have been hampered by his teaching, which is said to have been very successful. Reviews of him can be found in several theological journals.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Giessen (1824)

literature

• Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried:  Pfannkuche, Heinrich Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 606.
• Adolf Pfannkuche: History of the Hanoverian Pfannkuche family . o. O. o. J., p. 13f.
• Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 11th year, 1833. Weimar 1835. P. 646 f.
• Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche in German Biography .