Rudolf Kittel

Rudolf Kittel ( born March 28, 1853 in Eningen under Achalm, Württemberg, † October 20, 1929 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Rudolf Kittel lost his father in 1860. He studied from 1871 Protestant Theology at the Eberhard -Karls- University Tübingen, Tübingen joined the Royal Society Roigel. Influences were two of his former teacher, the theologian Johann Tobias Beck and the historian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker. In 1876 he received a doctorate in phil ..

Temporarily, he served as chaplain. 1879/80 and he was Repetent of philosophy at Tubingen. From 1881 to 1887, he was a teacher of religion and Hebrew language at the Karls- Gymnasium ( Stuttgart). In that time he worked on his history of the Hebrews, which he completed in 1887.

In the three years the Emperor Silesian Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Breslau he was appointed as Full Professor of Old Testament Studies. For the academic year 1896/97 he was elected Rector of the University. In 1898 he moved to the Chair of the University of Leipzig. There he devoted himself to the Amarna tablets and the Code of Hammurabi. 1901/ 02, 1907/ 08 and 1911/12, he was Dean of the Faculty of Theology. 1917/18 and 1918/19, he was at the University of Leipzig in turn rector.

Kittel himself saw " in science and piety never opposites " ( Autobiography, 3). Biblia Hebraica Kittel Until today the preserve its name.

Writings

• Biblia Hebraica (BHK ), 1909
• The Old Testament Studies in its most important results with consideration of religious education, 1910
• The Old Testament Studies in the main findings presented in 1917
• The Religion of Israel, 1921
• History of Israel, 1923
• Create and thoughts in Israel, 1925