Vincenz Zapletal

Vincenz Zapletal (born January 15, 1867 in Vilémov u Šluknova ; † January 21, 1938 in Hacking ) was an Austrian Dominican and Old Testament scholar.

Life

Zapletal entered the Dominican Order in 1883. From 1884 to 1891 he studied philosophy and theology at the Dominican Studium Generale in Vienna . After ordination in 1890 for the Dominican Province of Austria, he continued to study oriental languages ​​at the Bible School in Jerusalem from 1891 to 1893 . From 1893 he taught as a full professor of exegesis , biblical archeology and hermeneutics at the University of Friborg , where he held courses in Latin for Biblical Hebrew from 1896 to 1928 . From 1898 to 1899 and from 1913 to 1914 he was dean of the theological faculty and from 1910 to 1911 rector . He was superior of the Dominican Fathers in Freiburg im Üechtland . In 1928 he retired in the Dominican convent Hacking.

Fonts (selection)

• The totemism and religion of Israel. A contribution to religious studies and the explanation of the Old Testament . Freiburg im Üechtland 1901, OCLC 887356466 .
• The biblical account of creation (Gen. 1,1 to 2,3) . Freiburg im Üechtland 1902.
• Old Testament . Freiburg im Üechtland 1903, OCLC 493176539 .
• The book of Kohelet. Critically and metrically examined, translated and explained . Freiburg im Üechtland 1905, OCLC 19042352 .
• The Debor song . Freiburg im Üechtland 1905, OCLC 493176597 .
• The biblical Samson . Freiburg im Üechtland 1906, OCLC 19042352 .
• The Song of Songs. Examined critically and metrically . Freiburg im Üechtland 1907, OCLC 28875701 .
• About some of the tasks of Catholic Old Testament exegesis. Rector's speech given on November 15, 1910 to mark the opening ceremony of the 1910-1911 academic year . Freiburg im Üechtland 1910, OCLC 758288212 .
• The wine in the Bible. Cultural-historical and exegetical study . Freiburg im Breisgau 1920, OCLC 956561714 .
• Grammatica linguae hebraicae cum exercitiis et glossario. Studiis academicis accomodata . Paderborn 1921, OCLC 417120944 .
• The Book of Judges . Munster 1923, OCLC 717228746 .
• Jephtha's daughter. Cultural images from the early days of the Jewish people . Paderborn 1924, OCLC 27729302 .

literature

• Tomáš Petráěk: Výklad bible v době (anti-) modernistické krize. Život a dílo Vincenta Zapletala OP (1867-1938) . Prague 2006, ISBN 80-85929-81-3 .
• Tomáš Petráěk: Le père Vincent Zapletal OP (1867-1938). Portrait d'un exégète catholique . Freiburg im Üechtland 2007, ISBN 978-2-8271-1026-1 .
• Jean-Pierre Dorand: Vincenz Zapletal. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 1st December 2014 .