Hermann Guthe (theologian)

Hermann Guthe

Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Hermann Guthe (born May 10, 1849 in Westerlinde , † August 11, 1936 in Leipzig ) was a German Old Testament scholar and Palestine researcher .

Hermann Guthe studied theology in Göttingen and Erlangen from 1867 to 1870 . In 1877 he completed his habilitation in Leipzig, where he was professor of the Old Testament from 1884 until his retirement in 1921. In 1877 he was a co-founder of the German Association for the Exploration of Palestine .

Works

• Further W fragments e. Lederhs. containing Moses' last speech to d. Children of Israel, 1883;
• Palestine in pictures a. Wort, 2 vols., 1883 f. (with G. Ebers );
• The future picture d. Isaiah, 1885;
• Business d. People of Israel, 1899, ³ 1914;
• Hand card v. Palestine (with Hans Fischer), in: Zs. D. German Palestinians. 13, 1890, plate 2;
• Wall map v. Palestine, 1896 (with dems.), ⁴ 1929;
• The Books of Ezrah and Nehemiah, = The Sacred Books of the Old Testament 19, 1901;
• The mosaic map v. Madaba, 10 plates in color print, 1906 (with Palmer);
• Palestine, 1908, 21927;
• The Greco-Roman. Cities d. East Bank, = The Land d. Bible II, 5, 1918;
• Gerasa, = that. III, 1, 2, 1919;
• Amos, metric edit. with E. Sievers, 1907;

- Ed .: Short Bible Dictionary, 1903;

• Bible atlas in 20 main u. 28 inset maps, 1911, ² 1926;
• Zs. D. German Palestinians., 1877-96;
• Mitt. U. Message d. German Palestine Ver., 1897–1906.

literature

• Hans Bardtke:  Guthe, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Guthe, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 404-405.

portrait

• Photograph by G. [eorg] Brokesch , Leipzig, cabinet format (?), Handwritten curriculum vitae on the reverse for the Société de Geographie, Paris, dated 19.3.86 , ( Bibliothèque nationale de France , BnF )

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Guthe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Hermann Guthe's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1877 to summer semester 1914)
• Hermann Guthe in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig