Johann Benedict Carpzov II, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Benedict Carpzov II

German theologian

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1639

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1699

Profession: theologian, ethnologist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Johann Benedict Carpzov II

  • Johann Benedict Carpzov II (24 April 1639 – 23 March 1699) was a German Christian theologian and Hebraist.
  • He was a member of the scholarly Carpzov family. He studied Hebrew under Johannes Buxtorf II, in Basel.
  • He was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Leipzig in 1668, and was pastor of St.
  • Thomas' 1679-99, and professor of theology 1684-99. He edited in 1674 Wilhelm Schickard's Jus Regium Hebræorum, and, later, the Prophetas minores Commentarius of Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius), John Lightfoot's Horæ Heb.
  • et Talmudicæ, Friedrich Lanckisch's Concordantiae Bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Graecae, and in 1687 the Pugio fidei adversus Mauros et Iudaeos of Raimundus Marti.
  • To the last-named work he prefixed his own Introductio in Theologiam Judaicam. Some dissertations by Carpzov were published (1699) by his brother Samuel Benedict Carpzov; and in 1703 appeared his Collegium Rabbinico-Biblicum in Libellum Ruth.

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