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AUGUSTI, JOHANN See also:CHRISTIAN WILHELM (1772-1841) , See also:German theologian, See also:born at Eschenberga, near See also:Gotha, was of Jewish descent, his grandfather having been a converted See also:rabbi. He was educated at the gymnasium at Gotha and the university of See also:Jena. At Jena he studied See also:oriental See also:languages, of which he became See also:professor there in 18o3. Subsequently he became See also:ordinary professor of See also:theology (1812), and for a See also:time See also:rector, at See also:Breslau. In 1819 he was transferred to the university of See also:Bonn, where he was made professor primarius. In 1828 he was appointed See also:chief member of the consistorial See also:council at See also:Coblenz. Here he was afterwards made director of the See also:consistory. He died at Coblenz in 1841. Augusti had little sympathy with the See also:modern philosophical interpretations of See also:dogma, and although he took up a position of See also:free See also:criticism with regard to the Biblical narratives, he held fast to the traditional faith. His See also:works on theology (Dogmengeschichte, 18os; 4th ed., 1835) are See also:simple statements of fact; they do not See also:attempt a speculative treatment of their subjects. In 1809 he published in See also:conjunction with W. M.

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translation of the Old Testament. Mention should also be made of his Grundriss einer historischkritischen Einleitung ins Alte Testament (1806), his Exegetisches Handbuch See also:des See also:Allen Testaments (1797-1800), and his edition of See also:Die Apokryphen des A. T. (1804). In addition to these, his most important writings are the Denku-iirdigkeiten aus der Christlichen Archaologie, 12 vols. (1817-1831), a partially digested See also:mass of materials, and the Handbuch der See also:Christ. Archaologie, 3 vols. (1836-1837), which gives the substance of the larger See also:work in a more compact and systematic See also:form.

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