Julius Grill

Julius Friedrich Ludwig Grill , von Grill from 1903 , (born April 10, 1840 in Gaildorf ; died September 10, 1930 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian , Indologist and religious scholar .

After training in the Urach theological seminar , Grill studied at the University of Tübingen from 1854 . In 1862 he became vicar in Wildbad , later in Pfaffenhofen (Württemberg) . He worked as a repeater in the Heilbronn boarding school and from 1867 in the Tübingen monastery . In 1869 he became city vicar in Stuttgart and the following year deacon in Calw . In 1873 he received his doctorate in oriental studies on the basis of a work supervised by Rudolf von Roth .

From 1876 he taught at the Protestant theological seminar in Maulbronn . In 1880 he received his Lic. Theol. From the University of Jena . PhD. From 1888 until his retirement in 1913, he was a full professor of the Old Testament at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Tübingen . In 1902/1903 he was the rector of the university.

Awards

• 1903: Personal Nobility Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• 1912: Commentary Cross 2nd Class of the Order of Frederick

Fonts (selection)

• A hundred songs of the Atharva Veda. Tübingen 1879 digitized ; New edition: Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1888.
• The patriarchs of mankind - a contribution to the foundation of a Hebrew ancient science. First section: On the method of prehistoric research. The first people. Fues's Verlag (R. Reisland), Leipzig 1875.
• The sixty-eighth psalm. With special consideration for his old translators and newer interpreters. H. Laup, Tübingen 1883.
• On the criticism of the composition of the Book of Job. 1890.
• Research into the Origin of the Fourth Gospel. Mohr, Tuebingen.
  • Part 1: Research into the Origin of the Fourth Gospel. 1902
  • Part 2: The Gospel of Mysteries of Hellenized Christianity in Asia Minor. 1923
• The Persian Mystery Religion in the Roman Empire and Christianity. Mohr, Tübingen 1903.
• The primacy of Peter. An investigation , Mohr, Tübingen 1904.
• Lao-tsze's book of the highest being and the highest good. Mohr, Tübingen 1910.

literature

• Reinhold Rieger: Religious history outside the "religious history school". The Tübingen Old Testament scholar and orientalist Julius Grill (1840-1930). In: Baussteine ​​zur Tübingen University History, No. 10 (2005), pp. 51–114.

Web links

• leo-bw.de
• das-klassische-china.de
• Protestant biblical scholars on the website of the University of Tübingen