Friedrich Eduard König

Who is Friedrich Eduard König?

Friedrich Eduard König was a German Lutheran divine and Semitic scholar. He was born at Reichenbach im Vogtland and was educated at the University of Leipzig, where he became docent in 1879 and professor in 1885. In 1888 he became professor at Rostock and in 1900 at Bonn, where, as a theologian attacking Panbabylonism, he became involved in the so-called "Babel-Bible Dispute". As a linguist he attempted to apply the phonetic and physiological methods of modern philology to Hebrew and Ethiopic in such works as

Gedanke, Laut, und Akzent als die drei Faktoren der Sprachbildung,

Neue Studien über Schrift, Aussprache, und generelle Formenlehre des Aethiopischen, and

Historisch-kritisches Lehrgebäude der Hebräischen Sprache, 3 vols.,.

Among his innumerable publications are also:

Religious History of Israel

Der Glaubensakt der Christen

Einleitung in das Alte Testament

Neue Prinzipien der alttestamentlichen Kritik

Bible and Babylon : Their Relationship in the History of Culture, translated by William Turnbull. Pilter Kessinger Publishing Company 2006, ISBN 978-1-4254-8608-2

Die Gottesfrage und der Ursprung des Alten Testaments