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MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

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MERE, See also:ADALBERT (1838-1909) , See also:German theologian and orientalist, was See also:born at Bleicherode near See also:Nordhausen on the 2nd of See also:November 1838. He studied at See also:Jena, where he became extraordinary See also:professor in 1869. Subsequently he was ordinaryprofessor of See also:philosophy at See also:Tubingen, and in 1873 professor of See also:theology at See also:Giessen. From 1875 till his See also:death he was professor of theology of See also:Heidelberg. In the course of his researches he made several journeys in the See also:East. Among his many See also:works are: Grammatica syriaca (1867–1870); Vocabulary of the See also:Tigre See also:language (1868); Das Gedicht vom Hiob (1871); See also:Die Prophetic See also:des See also:Joel and ihre Ausleger (1879); Die Saadjanische Ubersetzung der Hohenlieder ins Arabische (1882); Chrestomathia targuynica (1888) ; Historia artis grammaticae aped Syros (1889); Ein samaritanisches Fragment (1893); Idee and Grundlinien einer allgemeiner Geschichte der Mystik (1893). Merx devoted much of his later See also:research to the elucidation of the Sinaitic See also:palimpsest discovered in 1892 by Mrs See also:Agnes See also:Smith See also:Lewis (see See also:BIBLE, iv. 321, ad fin.), the results being embodied in Die vier kanonischen Evangelien nach ihrem altestes bekannten Texte (1897–1905). His last See also:work was an edition of the books of See also:Moses and See also:Joshua. He died at Heidelberg on the 6th of See also:August 1909.

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