Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried (22 January 1830, Magdeburg – 9 January 1903, Jena) was a German theologian who specialized in Old Testament studies.
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He studied theology and philology at the universities of Halle and Bonn. In 1859, he received his doctorate from Halle, and afterwards worked as a teacher at the cathedral gymnasium in Magdeburg and at the regional school in Pforta. In 1875, he was appointed professor of Old Testament theology at the University of Jena.[1]
Selected works
edit- Spinoza als Kritiker und Ausleger des Alten Testaments, 1867 – Spinoza as a critic and interpreter of the Old Testament.
- Philo von Alexandria als Ausleger des Alten Testaments. 1875 – Philo of Alexandria as an interpreter of the Old Testament.
- Lehrbuch der neuhebräischen Sprache und Litteratur. 1884 (with Hermann Leberecht Strack) – Textbook of modern Hebrew language and literature.
- Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und V. Diez, (as editor) In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 1, 1890, S. 24–41 – Correspondence between Goethe and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez.
- "The book of Job. Critical edition of the Hebrew text", Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs; Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1893. (notes by Siegfried, English translation of the notes by Rudolf Ernst Brünnow).[2]
- Hebräisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament, 1893 (with Bernhard Stade) – Hebrew dictionary of the Old Testament.
- Kommentare: Prediger und Hoheslied. 1898 – Commentary on Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon.
- Esra, Nehemia, Esther. 1901 – Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.
Siegfried was the author of many articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.[3]
References
edit- ^ Dictionary of German Biography Schmidt - Theyer, edited by Walther Killy
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library The book of Job : Critical edition of the Hebrew text
- ^ Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried de.Wikisource