Gustav Bickell

Gustav Wilhelm Hugo Bickell (* July 7, 1838 in Kassel, † January 15, 1906 in Vienna ) was a German orientalist. He was considered one of the best connoisseurs of the Syriac language, and wrote prolifically on Syrian manuscripts, the Syriac Church Fathers and the Old Testament.

Life

His father, Johann Wilhelm Bickell (1799-1848) was professor of canon law at the University of Marburg, last Minister of Justice of Hesse- Kassel. Gustav Bickell studied from 1857 in Marburg and Halle theology and linguistics and in 1862 lecturer in Semitic and Indo-European languages ​​in Marburg, in the following year he taught in the same subjects at the University of Giessen. In the hymns of Ephrem the Syrian ascetics, which he transcribed in London, he found for himself a clear testimony to the Immaculate Conception of Mary, as taught by the Catholic Church. As a result, he converted to the Catholic Church on 5 November 1865. After his conversion he entered the seminary of Fulda and was ordained a priest in 1867.

He then taught Oriental languages ​​at the Academy of Münster and in 1871 associate professor. At this time he became a vigorous defender of papal infallibility doctrine. In 1874 he became professor of Christian archeology and Semitic Languages ​​at the University of Innsbruck. In 1891 he was called to the University of Vienna, where he was professor of Semitic languages. In 1892 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. Bickell was buried in the Viennese central cemetery.

Writings

  • De indole ac ratione versionis Alexandrinae in interpretando libri Jobi, Marburg 1862.
  • S. Ephraemi Syri Carmina Nisibena, Leipzig 1866 ( with an introduction to the metric laws of the Syrian seal).
  • Floor plan of the Hebrew grammar, Leipzig 1869-70.
  • Reasons for the infallibility of the Pontiff, Münster 1870.
  • Conspectus rei Syrorum litterariæ, Münster, 1871.
  • Fair and Pasha, Mainz 1872.
  • Writings and poems Syrian Church Fathers ( BKV band 71/72 ), Kempten.
  • S. isaaci Antiochian opera omnia, 2 vols, 1873-77 casting.
  • Kalilag and Damnag, Leipzig 1876.
  • Metrices biblicae regulae exemplis illustratae, Innsbruck, 1879.
  • Synodi brixinenses SAEC. quindecimi, Innsbruck 1880.
  • Carmina V. T. metrice, Innsbruck 1882.
  • Seals of the Hebrews, 3 volumes, Innsbruck 1882-84.
  • The Preacher ( Ecclesiastes ) about the value of existence, Innsbruck 1886.
  • The Book Job, Vienna 1894.

Honors

1921 a relief portrait of Karl Bickells Nickmann was unveiled in arcades of the University of Vienna. 1922 named to the Bickellgasse facility in Vienna after the scientist.

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