Albrecht Alt

Albrecht Alt ( born September 20, 1883 in Stübach at Diespeck (Franconia), † April 24, 1956 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian ( Old Testament ).

Alt was born as the son of a pastor and his wife, graduated from high school in Ansbach and studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich -Alexander- University of Erlangen -Nuremberg and Leipzig University. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate in the Munich office of preaching seminary. In 1908 he undertook a first Palestine Travel as a fellow of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land. In the same year he became inspector of the Theological Study Centre in Greifswald. In 1909 he handed the font Israel and Egypt as a promotion and a simultaneous Habilitation at the University of Greifswald.

1912 Old associate professor in Greifswald in 1914 then next Bernhard Duhm full professor at the University of Basel. During World War II he served in the German Orient Army as a medic and finally as head of the cartographic department and employees of the German -Turkish monument commands. After the war he was at times again professor in Basel, later provost of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. In 1921 he was appointed to the University of Halle in 1923 at the University of Leipzig, but with a year's leave of absence for the termination of activities in Jerusalem.

The GDR honored him in 1955 as Outstanding Scientists of the people.

Works in selection

  • The God of their fathers. A contribution to the history of Israelite religion; ( Contributions to the science of the Old and New Testaments, 3.12 ); Carbon Hammer: Stuttgart 1929.
  • The origin of the Hyksos in a new perspective; ( Reports of the proceedings of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Philological and historical class 101.6. ); Akademie-Verlag: Berlin, 1954.
  • Small writings on the history of Israel. Selection in a band; Evangelical publishing house Berlin 1962.
  • The city state of Samaria; ( Reports of the proceedings of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Philological and historical class 101.5. ); Akademie-Verlag: Berlin, 1954.
  • The origins of the Israelite law; ( Reports of the proceedings of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological and historical class 86.1 ); Hirzel: Leipzig 1934.
  • Peoples and states of Syria in early antiquity; ( The old Orient: generally comprehensible representations 34.4 ); Hinrichs: Leipzig 1936.
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