Hermann Guthe

Who was Hermann Guthe?

Hermann Guthe was a German Semitic scholar. He was educated at Göttingen, Erlangen, and at Leipzig University, where in 1884 he became professor of Old Testament exegesis. In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in Palestine; from 1877 to 1896 he edited the Zeitschrift, and from 1897 to 1906 the Mitteilungen and Nachrichten, of the German Palästina-Verein. He wrote on some of the minor prophets in Kautzsch's translation of the Old Testament and a metrical version of Amos, with Eduard Sievers. and his published work was in the fields of philology and religion and of archæology and topography, the more important titles being:

Ausgrabungen bei Jerusalem

Palæstina in Bild und Wort, with George Ebers

Das Zukunftsbild Jesaias

Palæstina

Bibel-Atlas

Geschichte des Volkes Israel

He was also a contributor to the 1903 Encyclopaedia Biblica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds.. "". New International Encyclopedia. New York: Dodd, Mead.