Konrad Gottlob Anton

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Konrad Gottlob Anton (born November 29, 1745 in Lauban ; † July 4, 1814 in Dresden ) was a German linguist and orientalist .

Life

Konrad Gottlob was born the son of the belt maker Konrad Anton and his wife Maria Magdalene Zimmer - the daughter of a saddler. His cousin was Karl Gottlob von Anton . Anton studied in Leipzig and gave lectures there after completing his studies in 1770. From 1775 he took over the professorship for oriental languages and classical philology at the University of Wittenberg , which he held until the end of the university in 1813.

In addition to Hebrew and the closest related languages, the lessons included Chaldean , Syrian and Rabbinic Talmudic , and at times also Persian , Ethiopian and Arabic . The aim was to promote and safeguard the interpretation of the Old Testament by using texts that were as multilingual as possible , for which the aim was to gain special lectures on biblical hermeneutics and critical principles. In addition, the Hebrew antiquities, mostly based on the Lepticus , were presented.

The theological influence was unmistakable in the professors and their teaching style, but it emphasized the indispensability of methodical source criticism in relation to the tradition of the Holy Scriptures. Numerous individual studies aimed at this point have been published for this purpose. Messages and notes from the scholarly activities of the time of theology, philosophy, churches and literary history were summarized in the " Bibliotheca theologico-philologico-philosophico-historica ".

He also tried to determine the Hebrew song melodies in a treatise on the ancient Hebrew art of music and an explanation of the Song of Songs (1800); He also tried to separate the messianic prophecy (1786) and reinterpret the book of Jonah (1794). In terms of music history, his works can only be rated as curiosities. In his later years he studied the relationship between languages ​​and the Russian language . Due to the events of the Wars of Liberation , he went to Dresden, where he died in 1814.

On September 23, 1776, Anton had married the daughter of a consistorial pronotary Caroline Louise Sophie Lüder. The son Karl Gottlieb Anton emerged from this marriage .

Works

  • Diss. De metro Hebraeorum antiquo. Leipzig 1770
  • Vindiciae disputationis de metro Hebraeor. antiquo a dubitationis virorum doctorum. Leipzig 1771, Pars II 1772
  • Translation of the high song. Leipzig 1772
  • Faithful translations of Hebrew, Greek and Latin poems. Leipzig 1772
  • Old hymns translated into today's dialect. Leipzig 1772 6th pieces
  • Disp. de vita communi Mtaphysices et Logices commendatrice habita per loco in ordine Philosophorum obtinendo. Leipzig 1773
  • Of Christianity as the only means of safeguarding against doubts about divine provision. Leipzig 1774 (a sermon)
  • Progr. Disciplina virtutis ex notione habitus. Wittenberg 1775
  • Translation of the description of a good wife, in the syllable mass of the original. Wittenberg 1776
  • Latin lexicon for use in schools. 1777
  • Nova loci 1 Sam. 6, 19 interpretandi ratio. Wittenberg 1780
  • Rationem prophetias Messianas interpretandi certissimam nostreque aetati accommodtanissimam exponit CS Anton. Dessau 1786
  • De verisimillima librum Jonae interpretandi ratione. 1794
  • Salomonis carmen melicum. Wittenberg and Leipzig 1800
  • De lingua russica ex eadem cum samscrdamica matre orientali prognata. Adiectae sunt observationes de eiusdem linguae cum aliis cognatione et de primis Russorum sedibus. Wittenberg 1809.

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SURNAME Anton, Konrad Gottlob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anton, Conrad Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Hebrew and Orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauban
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1814
Place of death Dresden