Carl Gottfried Woide
Carl Gottfried Woide (also: Karl Gottfried Woide ; * July 4, 1725 in Leszno ; † May 9, 1790 in London ) was a German-British orientalist . In England he was also known as Charles Godfrey Woide .
Life
Woide studied in Frankfurt an der Oder and Leiden and became a clergyman of the Socinians in Lissa . In 1750 he was in Leiden and received lessons in Coptic from Christian Scholz . He lived in England from 1768 to 1790. From 1770 he was a preacher at the Dutch Chapel Royal in St James's Palace , and later also at the Reformed Church in the Savoy in London.
On the recommendation of Bishop Lowth, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord North , he was sent to the libraries in Paris for a few months at King George III's expense . In this way he perfected his knowledge of Sahidi . In 1775 the University of Oxford published the Lexicon Ægytiaco-Latinum in its own publishing house, Clarendon Press , which was designed by Maturin Veyssière de La Croze and revised by Christian Scholz. Woide was involved as editor and provided the work with notes and indexes. He summarized the four-volume Grammatica Æegyptica utriusque dialecti by Scholz in one volume, the volume was published in 1778 by Clarendon Press under the supervision of Woide, the Sahidic section being entirely his work. He examined the Codex Alexandrinus and published New Testament texts from this Codex in 1786.
In 1778 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). From 1782 he was a librarian at the British Museum , first in the natural history department, later in the department for printed books. There he was responsible for the Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts. He was one of the first scholars to work on the Egyptian Sahidic texts. In 1780 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Woide earned the Dr. Theol. at the University of Copenhagen , was a member of the Royal Society from 1785 , received the Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford in 1786.
He died of a stroke on May 9, 1790, leaving two daughters behind. He owned some pages of the manuscript Unzial 070 , which are designated as Fragmentum Woideanum .
Fonts
- Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1775.
- Grammatica aegyptiaca utriusque dialecti , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.
- Novum Testamentum Graecum e codice ms. alexandrino , ed. by BH Cowper, London 1786.
literature
- Georg Joachim Hieronymus Röhrs : Dr. Woide , Funeral Sermon for the Deceased, London: J. Young, 1790
Web links
- Dictionary of national biography, Vol. LXII pp. 289-290 (English)
- Linnean Correspondence Karl Gottfried Woide to Carl Linnaeus (June 27, 1775)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annette Pozzo : Membra disiecta. Content and effect of the library of the Göttingen professor Lüder Kulenkamp (1724 - 1794) (= Berlin works on library science , vol. 25), also a dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin: Logos, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8325- 3622-0 and ISBN 3-8325-3622-1 , p. 31 (footnote 152); Preview over google books
- ↑ See Dictionary of national biography p. 289, although other sources write of a Reformed Church.
- ↑ Panicos Panayi, "Germans in Britain Since 1500"
- ↑ Le Jardin des Livres
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 263.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woide, Carl Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woide, Karl Gottfried; Woide, Charles Godfrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leszno |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1790 |
| Place of death | London |