Georg Gustav Roskoff

Georg Gustav Roskoff ( born August 31, 1814 Bratislava, † October 20, 1889 in Obertressen bei Aussee, Styria ) was an Austrian Protestant theologian, professor of Old Testament exegesis and government and Privy Councillor. His main work was the historical development of dualism and the cultural and historical representation of devil notions of the beginning of mankind until the 18th century. He has this written down in the applicable standard work " The History of the Devil ". Georg Gustav Roskoff was criticized when he took up the highly controversial figure of nine million witches were burned, which was charged by Gottfried Christian Voigt and helped her to spread (this number is considered to be obsolete ).

After the Lyceum in Bratislava Roskoff studied at the local Academy of Law and worked for Stored after legal examination three years educators in the royal home Radays. He matriculated in 1839 in Halle and studied philosophy and theology. After Hegel's death, the University of the academic headquarters of the conservative Hegelianism had become. Johann Eduard Erdmann introduced him to the philosophy of religion Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who coined Roskoffs theology nachhältig.

From Halle he went to Vienna and joined the Faculty Protestant Theological his studies with the Faculty exams from. In 1846 he was on the recommendation of salaried lecturer " assistant " for biblical exegesis. Just a year later he was given as a representation orphaned Chair of Old Testament teaching times. The consistory held up his " precision, presentation, determination of the conviction, mental sharpness, liveliness of the lectures " boasting forth and appointed him in 1850 as professor of Old Testament exegesis. He was awarded by order of 12 July In 1850 the chair of Old Testament and biblical archeology. 1852 awarded him the Heidelberg Faculty theological honorary doctorate. From 1861 onwards, las Roskoff also ethics and clothed until his retirement in 1884 four times the deanery. His achievements were recognized with the appointment to the Austrian Board of Education and 1869 with the appointment to the Executive Council. Finally Roskoff was the Order of the Iron Crown, bestowed with the right to collect a knighthood, but from which he did not use, preferring to stay in the bourgeois state. In Vienna, Georg Gustav Roskoff member of the presbytery and in the municipal council of the orphans' pension association, he has launched with.

Works

• The Hebrew antiquities in letters, Vienna 1857
• The Simson question of their origin, form and meaning and the Heraclesmythus, Leipzig 1860
• History of the Devil. A cultural-historical Satanology from the beginnings to the 18th century, Leipzig 1869 ISBN 978-3937229690 archive.org
• The religious nature of the rawest primitive peoples, Leipzig 1880.