Emil Friedrich Kautzsch

Who was Emil Friedrich Kautzsch?

Emil Friedrich Kautzsch was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plauen, Saxony. He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent and professor. Subsequently he held chairs at Basel and Tübingen and received a professorship at Halle in 1888.

Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine in 1876, and he became one of the founding members of the Palestine Exploration Society of Germany the following year. He was also one of the editors of the Theologische Studien und Kritiken, beginning in 1888.

Kautzsch edited the following works:

The 8th edition of Hermann Scholz's Abriss der Hebräischen Laut- und Formenlehre,

The 10th and 11th editions of Hagenbach's Encykloädie und Methodologie

The 22nd through the 28th editions of Gesenius' Hebräische Grammatik,

In addition, Kautzsch wrote:

Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments, with other scholars

Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments, published posthumously

De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo Apostolo Allegatis,

Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen,