Preben Wernberg-Møller
Preben Christian Heiberg Wernberg-Møller (born February 15, 1923 in Kerteminde ; † February 6, 2016 ) was a Danish-British Semitist .
Wernberg-Møller was one of the first researchers to study the Dead Sea Scrolls . His Oxford dissertation (under Godfrey R. Driver ) deals with the church rules (1QS). Wernberg-Møller was interviewed as one of the candidates for the international publication team of the texts, but instead went to the University of Manchester (Department of Near Eastern Studies) as a lecturer in Semitic Languages and Literatures in 1954 . In 1968 he returned to Oxford University (St Peter's College) as the successor to John Emerton as Reader in Semitic Philology , where he taught until 1990.
Works
- The Manual of Discipline: Translated and Annotated with an Introduction (= Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 1). Brill, Leiden 1957.
literature
- Adam and Charles Black (Firm): The Academic who's who. A. & C. Black, London; distributed in US by Bowker, New York, 1973, p. 493.
Individual evidence
- ^ Preben Christian Heiberg Wernberg-Møller in: www.fredericiashistorie.dk; accessed on October 7, 2018
- ↑ https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/death-dr-preben-wernberg-moller
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| SURNAME | Wernberg-Møller, Preben |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wernberg-Møller, Preben Christian Heiberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish-British Semitist and Qumran researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kerteminde |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2016 |