Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit

Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit ( born April 11, 1795 in Sonneborn, † April 26, 1860 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian ( mediation theologian, professor of Old Testament ).

Life

As the son of an organist visited Umbreit 1809 - 1814 Gymnasium in Gotha and subsequently studied in Göttingen, among others Eichhorn. In 1819 he spent some months in Vienna at the Orientalists Hammer, with whom he then joined a decades- long friendship. Umbreit 1820 became an associate professor of Old Testament and Oriental Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, 1823, he became a full professor. He worked closely with Carl Christian Ullmann. From 1829 he held the Chair in the Faculty of Theology of the Old Testament Heidelberg.

Umbreit received in 1832 the title of Churches, 1854 Privy Council of Churches. 1858 Umbreit ill and died on 26 April 1860 in Heidelberg. He was married and had three daughters.

Works

In addition to numerous contributions in the collaboration with Carl Christian Ullmann, which he edited Theological studies and reviews Umbreit also worked as a translator of the Bible; he translated, among other parts of the Psalms, the Book of Job, Proverbs, and

• Koheleth 's the wise king agony or philosophical observations about the highest good, from d Hebrew trans. and as a whole dargest: An attempt. Gotha: Becker'sche Buchh. 1818

His main work is a 4 - tamer comment (including translation ) to the prophetic books of the Old Testament:

• Practical Commentary on the Prophets of the Old Covenant with exegetical and critical notes, Hamburg, Friedrich Perthes, 1841 - 1846