Carl Paul Caspari

Carl Paul Caspari ( born February 8, 1814 Dessau, † April 11, 1892 in Kristiania, now Oslo ) was a Lutheran theologian and orientalist.

The son of Jewish parents attended the Jewish school and high school in his hometown. In Leipzig he attended lectures on oriental languages ​​Arabic and Persian. He was familiar with the New Testament by his friends and classmates Karl Graul and Franz Delitzsch. At Pentecost 1838, he was baptized a Christian. In the years 1839/1840 he studied, among others at Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg theology. In 1842 he became a doctor of philosophy in Leipzig. In 1844 he published a two-volume Arabic grammar. An appeal to associate professor in Königsberg in succession by the late Heinrich Hävernick fell through due to its positive attitude towards the separated Lutherans and the resulting conflict with the Prussian state. 1847 brought him the Norwegian theologian Gisle Johnson as a lecturer at the University of Christiania, where he received a professorship in 1857. Calls to Germany, he refused repeated so also in 1867 to Erlangen to further work in Norway to succeed his friend Delitzsch. He was particularly involved in the refutation of the thesis of the Danish priest and theologian Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, who saw the highest authority in Christ, put this on the Bible and therefore ("only Scripture alone " ) violated the Lutheran principle of sola scriptura. In addition, he was president of the Association for the conversion of the Norwegian Jews and a member of the Biblical Commission. Until 1891 he was engaged in the creation of a new translation of the Old Testament into Norwegian. Death overtook him in the translation of the New Testament.

Works

  • Grammatica arabica, Leipzig 1844
  • Contributions to the Introduction to the Book of Isaiah, Berlin 1848
  • About the Syro- Ephraimite war under Jotham and Ahaz, Kristiania 1849
  • About Micah and his prophetic Scripture, Kristiania 1852
  • As an introduction to the book of Daniel, Leipzig 1869
  • Sources for the history of Taufsymbols and the rule of faith, Kristiania 1866-69, 2 vols
  • Sources for the history of Taufsymbols, Kristiania 1875
  • Old and new sources on the history of Taufsymbols and the rule of faith, Kristiania 1879
  • Church Historical Anecdota along with new editions of patristic and medieval ecclesiastical writings, Kristiania 1883
  • A Augustin falsely enclosed Homilia de sacrilegiis, 1886
  • Letters, treatises and sermons from the last two centuries of the Church's antiquity and the early Middle Ages, 1891
  • The belief in the Trinity of God in the Church of the first Christian century demonstrated, Leipzig 1894
  • The aeldste kirkeordning overaat above oplyst, 1894.
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