Franz Karl Movers
Franz Karl Movers (17 July 1806 – 28 September 1856), German Roman Catholic divine and Orientalist, was born at Koesfeld in Westphalia.[1]
Life
He studied theology and Oriental languages at Münster, was parish priest at Berkum near Bonn from 1833 to 1839, and professor of Old Testament theology in the Catholic faculty at Breslau from 1839 to his death.[2]
His elaborate works, Die Phönizier (1841–1850) and Phönizische Texte, erklärt (1845–1847), attained a high reputation.[3] Of his other writings two biblical studies were of some importance, his Kritische Untersuchungen caber die alttestamentliche Chronik (1834), and his Latin essay on the two recensions of the text of Jeremiah, De utriusque recensionis vaticiniorum Jeremiae ... indole et origine (1837)[2]
References
- ↑ Lauchert 1913.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chisholm 1911.
- ↑ "Franz-Carl Movers", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, 2005, p.255.
- Attribution
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
- 1806 births
- 1856 deaths
- 19th-century German Catholic theologians
- German orientalists
- 19th-century German male writers
- German male non-fiction writers