Franz Xaver Kugler

Franz Xaver Kugler, SJ, ( born November 27, 1862 in King Bach on the wine route (Pfalz ); † January 25, 1929 in Lucerne ) was a German mathematician, historian and Astronomy Assyriologist.

Life

Franz Xaver Kugler studied natural sciences at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich. In 1885 he received a doctorate in chemistry. A year later he joined the Netherlands in the novitiate of the Jesuits. After completion of the same, he studied philosophy at the order's College Exaten (Netherlands) and theology in Ditton Hall ( Great Britain).

1893 Kugler was ordained a priest. From 1897 he taught as a professor of higher mathematics at the educational establishment of the Jesuits in Valkenburg in the Netherlands.

Eight weeks after his 67th birthday, Franz Xaver Kugler died in a nursing home in Lucerne Castle Steinhofgründe the Brothers of Charity.

Reception

Kugler gained national importance in the Babel - Bible controversy. Through his critical comments on the Panbabylonismus Kugler contributed to Friedrich Delitzsch and Hugo Winckler at the end of this highly controversial discussion.

His works in Assyriology were recognized as pioneering achievements but Kugler's findings are now partly outdated. The argument put by him, provided that a modern understanding of science was already present in the Babylonian- Assyrian texts, was later criticized.

As the successor of Joseph Epping and Johann Nepomuk Strassmaier (1846-1920) Kugler led their theories on. His Babylonian moon invoice (1900) called astronomy historian Noel Swerdlow most original and difficult investigation, which was undertaken in the history of science until then His astronomy and star restaurant in Babylon, published in 1907, in addition to the Babylonian planetary theories discussed numerous other topics of Babylonian astronomy and applies today as one of the fundamental works in this field, although they are overtaken by the appearing from 1955 Astronomical cuneiform texts ( ACT) by Otto Neugebauer in part. It can be found there also scattered remarks against the Panbabylonismus, which he detailed in his book, In the spell of Babylon from 1910 recites.

Works (selection)

  • Astronomy and star restaurant in Babylon, Münster, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1907-1924, supplementary volumes continued by Johann Schaumberger 1935
  • Sibyllinischer Star battle and Phaeton in natural history lighting ( online excerpt)
  • The Babylonian moon invoice. Freiburg 1900.
  • From Moses to Paul. Münster 1922.
  • Cultural and historical significance of Babylonian astronomy. In: Club Spirit of the Gorres Society Vol 2 (1907 ), pp. 38-50.
  • On the ruins of the Panbabylonismus. In: Anthropos Vol 4 (1909 )
  • In the spell of Babel: panbabylonistische constructions and religious historical facts, Münster, Aschendorff 1910
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