Otto Walper

Otto Walper (also latin Otho Gaul ( t) Perius, * January 1, 1543 in Rotenburg an der Fulda, . † December 28, 1624 in Lübeck ) was a German philologist and theologian.

Life

Otto Walper studied from 1567 at the University of Marburg to the master's examination and received his doctorate at the University of Basel as a doctor of theology. He took in 1581 to the professorship of Greek at Marburg, in 1584 he was also Professor of Hebrew. The Prince William of Hesse -Kassel was his patron. With the change of confession to Calvinism through his son Moritz, Walper was, however, disagreed. As a professor of the State University of Marburg Walper would also have to accept this confession. He therefore changed the place and in 1593 rector of Katharineum to Lübeck. This office he held until 1613.

Walper wrote, among other things, as a professor in Marburg two grammars for language teaching in Greek and Hebrew. The Greek grammar through several editions until the 18th century and was widely used as a school grammar. His was one of the first Hebrew grammar written by a Christian textbooks that language.

Walper was married to Timeless Orth and had a daughter and a son Aegidius Konrad, the Superintendent in Jever was with her two children.

Works

  • De Dialectis Graecae linguae praecipuis, Attica, Ionica, Dorica, AEOLICA, et coronidis vice nonnulla de proprietate poetica, spit, Frankfurt am Main 1589 ( about Greek dialects )
  • Grammatica linguae sanctae, by quaestiones & Responsiones Duo bus libris Comprehensa: quorum prior Etymologiae: posterior syntaxeos doctrinam cont, Selfisch, Witteberg 1590 (grammar of Hebrew )
  • Grammatica Graeca: Ex optimistic quibusque autoribus, in usum Academiae Marpurgensis, ceterarumque Scholarum Hussiacarum, by quaestiones & Responsiones concinnata, Egenolff, Marburg 1590 ( Greek grammar)
  • Dissertatio de filii Dei incarnatione, Johann Balhorn, Lübeck 1595
  • Synkrisis immersive comparatio logica, utriusque familiae logicae, Romeae scilicet et Aristotelicae, Reusner, Rostock 1599 ( comparison of Roman and Aristotelian logic)
  • Sylloge vocum Exoticarum, HE Hebræarum, Syro - chaldaicarum, Persicarum, Latinarum, & Latinis respondentium, Quae habetur in contextu Græco Testamenti Novi: Cum Interpretatione etymologica, & rerum utilium adhaerentium commonefactione, auctore Othone Gualtperio, Selfisch / Henckel, Wittenberg 1608 ( about Hebrew, Chaldean, Persian and Latin Use keywords in the Greek of the New Testament )
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