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HITZIG, FERDINAND (1807-1875)

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HITZIG, See also:FERDINAND (1807-1875) , See also:German biblical critic, was See also:born at Hauingen, See also:Baden, where his See also:father was a pastor, on the 23rd of See also:June 1807. He studied See also:theology at See also:Heidelberg under H. E. G. See also:Paulus, at See also:Halle under Wilhelm Gesenius and at See also:Gottingen under See also:Ewald. Returning to Heidelberg he became Privatdozent in theology in 1829, and in 1831 published his Begriff der Kritik am See also:Allen Testamente praktisch ervrtert, a study of Old Testament See also:criticism in which he explained the See also:critical principles of the grammatico-See also:historical school, and his See also:Des Propheten See also:Jonas Orakel uber See also:Moab, an exposition of the 15th and 16th chapters of the See also:book of See also:Isaiah attributed by him to the See also:prophet See also:Jonah mentioned in 2 See also:Kings xiv. 25. In 1833 he was called to the university of See also:Zurich as See also:professor ordinarius of theology. His next See also:work was a commentary on Isaiah with a See also:translation (Ubersetzung u. Auslegung des Propheten Jesajas), which he dedicated to Heinrich Ewald, and which See also:Hermann See also:Hupfeld (1796–1866), well known as a commentator on the See also:Psalms (1855-1861), pronounced to be his best exegetical work. At Zurich he laboured for a See also:period of twenty-eight years, during which, besides commentaries on The Psalms (1835–1836; 2nd ed.; 1863–1865), The See also:Minor Prophets (1838; 3rd ed., 1863), See also:Jeremiah (184r; 2nd ed., 1866), See also:Ezekiel (1847), See also:Daniel (185o), See also:Ecclesiastes (1847), See also:Canticles (1855), and See also:Proverbs (1858), he published a monograph, Uber Johannes Markus u. See also:seine Schriften (1843), in which he maintained the See also:chronological priority of the second See also:gospel, and sought to prove that the See also:Apocalypse was written by the same author. He also published various treatisesof archaeological See also:interest, of which the most important are See also:Die Erfindung des Alphabets (184o), Urgeschichte u.

Mythologie der Philistder (1845), and Die Grabschrift des Eschmunezar(1855). After the See also:

death of See also:Friedrich Umbreit (1795–1860), one of the founders of the well-known Studien and Kritiken, he was called in 1861 to succeed him as professor of theology at Heidelberg. Here he wrote his Geschichte des Volkes See also:Israel (1869-187o), in two parts, extending respectively to the end of the See also:Persian domination and to the fall of Masada, A.D. 72, as well as a work on the Pauline epistles, Zur Kritik Paulinischer Briefe (187o), on the Moabite See also:Stone, Die Inschrift des Mescha (187o), and on See also:Assyrian, Sprache u. Sprachen Assyriens (1871), besides revising the commentary on See also:Job by See also:Ludwig Hirzel (1802-1841), which was first published in 1839. He was also a contributor to the Monatsschrift des wissenschaftlichen Vereins in Zurich, the Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, the Theologische Studien u. Kritiken, Eduard See also:Zeller's Theologische Jahrbucher, and Adolf See also:Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift See also:fur wissenschaftliche Theologie. Hitzig died at Heidelberg on the 22nd of See also:January 1875. As a See also:Hebrew philologist he holds high See also:rank; and as a constructive critic he is remarkable for acuteness and sagacity. As a historian, however, some of his speculations have been considered fanciful. " He places the See also:cradle of the . Israelites in the See also:south of See also:Arabia, and, like many other critics, makes the historical times begin only with See also:Moses " (F.

Lichtenberger, See also:

History of German Theology, p. 569). His lectures on biblical theology (Vorlesungen iiber biblische Theologie u. messianische Weissagungen) were published in 188o after his death, along with a portrait and See also:biographical See also:sketch byy his See also:pupil, J. J. Kneucker (b. 1840), professor of theology at Heidelberg. See Heinrich See also:Steiner, Ferdinand Hitzig (1882); and Adolf Kamphausen's See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopddie. HIUNG-NU, HIONG-NU, HEUNG-NU, a See also:people who about the end of the 3rd See also:century B.C. formed, according to See also:Chinese records, a powerful See also:empire from the See also:Great See also:Wall of See also:China to the See also:Caspian. Their ethnical See also:affinities have been much discussed; but it is most probable that they were of the See also:Turki stock, as were the See also:Huns, their later western representatives. They are the first See also:Turkish people mentioned by the Chinese. A theory which seems plausible is that which assumes them to have been a heterogenous collection of Mongol, Tungus, Turki and perhaps even Finnish hordes under a Mongol military See also:caste, though the Mongolo-Tungus See also:element probably predominated. Towards the See also:close of the 1st century of the See also:Christian era the Hiung-nu empire See also:broke up.

Their subsequent history is obscure. Some of them seem to have gone westward and settled on the Ural See also:

river. These, de Guiques suggests, were the ancestors of the Huns, and many ethnologists hold that the Hiung-nu were the ancestors of the See also:modern See also:Turks. See See also:Journal Anthropological See also:Institute for 1874; See also:Sir H. H. Howorth, History of the See also:Mongols (1876–188o) ; 6th See also:Congress of Orientalists, See also:Leiden, 1883 (Actes, See also:part iv. pp. 177-195) ; de Guiques, Histoire generale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mongoles, et des autres Zartares occidentaux (1756–1758).

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