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JAHN, JOHANN (1750—1816)

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JAHN, JOHANN (1750—1816) , See also:German Orientalist, was See also:born at Tasswitz, See also:Moravia, on the 18th of See also:June 1750. He studied See also:philosophy at See also:Olmutz, and in 1772 began his theological studies at the Premonstratensian See also:convent of Bruck, near See also:Znaim. Having been ordained in 1775, he for a See also:short See also:time held a cure at Mislitz, but was soon recalled to Bruck as See also:professor of See also:Oriental See also:languages and Biblical See also:hermeneutics. On the suppression of the convent by See also:Joseph II. in 1784, Jahn took up similar See also:work at Olmutz, and in 1789 he was transferred to See also:Vienna as professor of Oriental languages, biblical See also:archaeology and dogmatics. In 1792 he published his Einleitung ins Alte Testament (2 vols.), which soon brought him into trouble; the See also:cardinal-See also:archbishop of Vienna laid a complaint against him for having departed from the traditional teaching of the See also:Church, e.g. by asserting See also:Job, See also:Jonah, See also:Tobit and See also:Judith to be didactic poems, and the cases of demoniacal See also:possession in the New Testament to be cases of dangerous disease. An ecclesiastical See also:commission reported that the views themselves were not necessarily heretical, but that Jahn had erred in showing too little See also:consideration for the views of German See also:Catholic theologians in coming into conflict with his See also:bishop, and in raising difficult problems by which the unlearned might be led astray. He was accordingly advised to modify his expressions in future. Although he appears honestly to have accepted this See also:judgment, the hostility of his opponents did not cease until at last (18o6) he was compelled to accept a canonry at St See also:Stephen's, Vienna, which involved the resignation of his See also:chair. This step had been preceded by the condemnation of his Introductio in libros sacros veteris foederis in compendium redacta, published in 1804, and also of his Archaeologia biblica in compendium redacta (18o5). The only work of importance, outside the region of See also:mere See also:philology, afterwards published by him, was the Enchiridion Hermeneuticae (1812). He died on the 16th of See also:August 1816. Besides the See also:works already mentioned, he published Hebrdische Sprachlehre See also:fur Anfanger (1792) ; Aramaische od.

Chaldaische u. SyrischeSprachlehre far Anf anger ( 1 793) ; ArabischeSprachlehre( 1796) ; Elementarbuch der hebr. Sprache (1799); Chaldaische Chrestomathie (1800); Arabische Chrestomathie (1802); See also:

Lexicon arabico-latinum chrestomathiae accommodatum (1802); an edition of the See also:Hebrew See also:Bible (18o6) ; Grammatica linguae hebraicae (18o9); a See also:critical commentary on the Messianic passages of the Old Testament (Vaticinia prophetarum de Jesu Messia, 1815). In 1821 a collection of Nachtrage appeared, containing six See also:dissertations on Biblical subjects. The See also:English See also:translation of the Archaeologia by T. C. Upham (184o) has passed through several See also:editions.

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