August wishes

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Karl August Wünsche (born August 22, 1838 in Hainewalde near Zittau , † November 15, 1912 in Dresden ) was a Protestant theologian and Hebrew.

Live and act

Wish studied theology and oriental studies in Leipzig from 1860 to 1866 . From 1866 he was a teacher at the secondary school in Leipzig , from 1869 to 1905 senior teacher at the municipal secondary school for girls in Dresden. He was known as an Agada translator and edited a multi-volume history of Jewish literature with Jakob Winter (1894–1896).

Works

  • New contributions to the explanation of the Gospels from Talmud and Midrash , Göttingen 1878; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 2005.
  • Jakob Winter / August Wünsche (ed.): The Jewish literature since the end of the canon. A prosaic and poetic anthology with biographical and literary-historical introductions. Trier 1894–1896 ( digitized version ); Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1965.
    • Volume 1: History of Jewish-Hellenistic and Talmudic literature, at the same time an anthology for school and home. Trier 1894.
    • Volume 2: History of Rabbinical Literature during the Middle Ages and its Post-Bloom in Modern Times. Trier 1894.
    • Volume 3: History of the poetic, cabbalistic, historical and modern literature of the Jews. Trier 1896.
  • Creation and Fall of Man of the first human couple. Leipzig 1905.
  • The beauty of the Old Testament (= The beauty of the Bible. Vol. 1). Leipzig 1906.
  • Bibliotheca rabbinica: A collection of ancient Midrashim. Translated into German for the first time. Schulze, Leipzig 1880–1885 ( digitized version ).
    • The Midrash Bereshit Rabba (Bibliotheca Rabbinica). 1880.
    • Pesikta of Rab Kahana (Bibliotheca Rabbinica). 1885.
    • The Midrash Mishle. 1885.
    • The Midrash to the Book of Esther. 1881.
    • The Midrash Debarim Rabba. 1882.
    • The Midrash of Kohelet. 1880.
    • The Midrash Shir Ha-Shirim. 1880.
    • The Midrash Echa Rabbati. 1881.
    • The Midrash Bemidbar Rabba. 1885.
    • The Midrash Shemot Rabba. With notes and improvements by Julius Fürst and David Oscar Straschun. 1882.
    • The Midrash Ruth Rabba. 1883.
    • The Midrash Vajikra Rabba. 1884.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in Degener's Who is it . Other sources also give July 22 as the birthday and 1839 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Information in Bettelheim's Nekrolog. Other sources also give November 16, 1913.

Web links

Wikisource: August Wünsche  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Wishes, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wish, Karl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainewalde near Zittau
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1912
Place of death Dresden