Rudolf Kittel
Rudolf Kittel (born March 28, 1853 in Eningen under Achalm , Württemberg ; † October 20, 1929 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
Rudolf Kittel lost his father in 1860. From 1871 he studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . Two of his academic teachers, the theologian Johann Tobias Beck and the historian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker, were influential . 1876 doctorate he became Dr. phil.
Temporarily he worked as a clergyman. In 1879/80 he was a repetiteur for philosophy at the Tübingen monastery . From 1881 to 1887 he was a teacher for religion and the Hebrew language at the Karls-Gymnasium (Stuttgart) . At that time he was working on his History of the Hebrews , which he completed in 1887.
During the three emperor's year , the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau appointed him full professor for Old Testament studies . For the academic year 1896/97 he was elected rector of the university. In 1898 he switched to the chair at the University of Leipzig . There he devoted himself to the Amarnata tablets and the Codex Hammurapi . In 1901/02, 1907/08 and 1911/12 he was dean of the theological faculty. In 1917/18 and 1918/19 he was rector at the University of Leipzig.
Kittel himself saw "in science and piety never opposites" (Autobiography, 3). The Biblia Hebraica Kittel has kept its name to this day.
Fonts
- Biblia Hebraica (BHK), 1909
- The most important results of Old Testament science with consideration of religious education , 1910
- The Main Results of Old Testament Science , 1917
- The Religion of the People of Israel , 1921
- History of the People of Israel , 1923
- Figures and Thoughts in Israel , 1925
literature
- Christof Dahm : Kittel, Rudolf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1548-1550.
- Helmut Engel: Kittel, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 692 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Rudolf Kittel . In: Article in the magazine of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft , Volume 84, p. 78 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Leipzig professor catalog
- ↑ a b Rector's speeches (HKM)
- ↑ Biblia Hebraica (online)
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Kittel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Full texts online at Internet Archive
- Rudolf Kittel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Rudolf Kittel's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1898 to summer semester 1914)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kittel, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Old Testament scholar; University professor and rector in Breslau and Leipzig |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eningen under Achalm , Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1929 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |