Franz Karl Movers
Franz Karl Movers (July 17, 1806 – September 28, 1856), German Roman Catholic divine and Orientalist, was born at Koesfeld in Westphalia.[1]
Life
He studied theology and Oriental languages at Münster, was parish priest at Berkum near Bonn from 1833 to 1839, and professor of Old Testament theology in the Catholic faculty at Breslau from 1839 to his death.[2]
His elaborate works, Die Phönizier (1841–1850) and Phönizische Texte, erklärt (1845–1847), attained a high reputation.[3] Of his other writings two biblical studies were of some importance, his Kritische Untersuchungen caber die alttestamentliche Chronik (1834), and his Latin essay on the two recensions of the text of Jeremiah, De utriusque recensionis vaticiniorum Jeremiae ... indole et origine (1837)[2]
References
- ↑ Lauchert 1913.
- 1 2 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ "Franz-Carl Movers", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, 2005, p.255.
- Attribution
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Movers, Franz Karl". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- Lauchert, Friedrich (1913). "Franz Karl Movers". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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