August Wilhelm Knobel

Who was August Wilhelm Knobel?

August Wilhelm Karl Knobel was a German theologian born near Sorau, Niederlausitz.

From 1826 he studied philosophy, philology and theology at the University of Breslau, earning his doctorate in 1831. Afterwards he became a lecturer, and later an associate professor at Breslau. In 1838 he became a professor of theology at Breslau, and shortly afterwards relocated to the University of Giessen.

Knobel specialized in Old Testament exegesis, and was the author of numerous interpretations and commentaries on the Pentateuch and other books of the Old Testament. Among his better known publications are the following:

⁕Commentar über das Buch Kohelet,;

⁕Der Prophetismus der Hebräer,;

⁕Der Prophet Jesaia,;

⁕Exegetisches vademecum fur Herrn Professor Ewald in Tübingen,;- This publication was a polemic in reaction to Georg Heinrich August Ewald's disparaging critique of Knobel's Der Prophet Jesaia.

⁕Die Völkertafel der Genesis,;

⁕Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus;