Rudolf Henzi
Samuel Gottlieb Rudolf Henzi ( Russian Самуил Готтлиб Рудольф Генци * 7. September 1794 in Bern , † 1 February . Jul / 13. February 1829 greg. In Tartu ) was a Swiss theologian , linguist , orientalist and university professor in Tartu .
Life
Origin and family
Rudolf was a member of the Berne Burger Family Henzi . His parents were the businessman Rudolf Jakob Henzi (1767–1830) and Rosina Elisabeth, née König (1769–1852).
He married Rosamunde Furer (1796–1874) in Dorpat in 1821. The marriage resulted in four sons and two daughters.
Career
Henzi began his university education in Bern , where he first studied philosophy and then theology for six semesters . Then, in 1816, he studied theology for another year in Tübingen . In 1817/1818 history studies followed in Göttingen . On his return he became vicar in Unterseen , but gave up already in autumn 1818 and went to Paris , where he studied Arabic , Persian and Sanskrit . After a subsequent stay in England, Henzi returned to Bern in the summer of 1819. He received his doctorate in Tübingen .
On March 5, 1820, he was appointed full professor to the chair for exegetics and oriental languages in Dorpat and gave his introductory lecture on August 30, 1820: "About the relationship between the writings of the Old and New Testaments in terms of content and form."
In 1821 he became director of the Dorpater branch of the Russian Bible Society and in 1822 a member of the school commission. He was dean of the theological faculty four times .
With his appointment to the court councilor ( 6th class ) he was accepted into the hereditary Russian service nobility.
Works
- Fragmenta Arabica, e codicibus manuscriptis parisinis nunc primum, publicis sumtibus , St. Peterburg 1828 ( digitized on Google Books )
- Ad audiendam orationem in auditorio maximo d. 6 Dec hadam qua diem Nicolai I. imperatoris et domini nostri longe clementissimi sancto nomini dicatum concelebrabit Univeristas Literarum Dorpatensis invitat Rudolphus Henzi D. […] Inest libri Ecclesiastae argumenti brevis adumbratio (invitation to a celebratory lecture on the occasion of Nicholas I with the tsar's day Lecture on the book Ecclesiastes ), Dorpat 1827 ( digitized on Google Books)
- Sermon on Rom. I, 16. , Dorpat [1820] ( Catalog entry Estonian National Library )
- Outline of a grammar and dictionary of the Hawaiian or sandwich language In: Hertha, Zeitschrift für Erd-, Völker und Statistikkunde , Stuttgart / Tübingen 1826, part 2, pp. 76–120. ( Digitized on Internet Archive )
- See also
- Letter to Karl Morgenstern , 1820 ( digital copy from the University of Tartu)
Web links
- Alexander Alexandrowitsch Polowzow (Red.): Русский биографический словарь , Volume 4, 1914, pp. 422-423 ( Wikisource ; Russian)
- Entry in the Erik Amburger database at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
- Entry on CERL thesaurus
- Works by and about Rudolf Henzi in the German Digital Library
- Entry on Kalliope network
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Samuel Gottlieb Rudolf Henzi in the Historical Family Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ A b Hans Henzi: Two Bernese women go to Livonia and meet Albert Bitzius . , In: Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus, Bern 1969, pp. 62–68 ( PDF ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henzi, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henzi, Samuel Gottlieb Rudolf (full name); Генци, Самуил Готтлиб Рудольф (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss theologian, linguist, orientalist and university professor in Dorpat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1829 |
| Place of death | Dorpat |