Johann Heinrich Callenberg

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Johann Heinrich Callenberg (January 12, 1694 – July 11, 1760) was a German

Life

Callenberg was born in

Callenberg also sent missionaries to other European countries, and was a patron of converted Jews. His plans for the conversion of Muslims were resumed somewhat later, but in these he utterly failed.

From 1730 onwards, the Institutum Judaicum sent out more than 20 missionaries^[2] and existed until 1791.

In 1727 Callenberg was appointed extraordinary professor of theology at the University of Halle, and in 1735 professor of philology. He died, aged 66, at

Works

Among the works Callenberg published are the following:

• Prima rudivuenta linguse arabicx, Halle, 1729
• Scriptores de reliçione duhammedica, 1734
• Spécimen bibliolhecx arabicx, 1736
• Arabic translations of the
  The Imitation of Christ, Luther's Catechism
  , etc.
• Kurtze Anleitung zur jüdischteutschen Sprache ertheilet von Joh. Heinrich Callenberg. Halle, 1733 (Digitized by
  Leo Baeck Institute, New York
  )

Sources

• Werner Raupp (Ed.): Mission in Quellentexten. Geschichte der Deutschen Evangelischen Mission von der Reformation bis zur Weltmissionskonferenz Edinburgh 1910, Erlangen/Bad Liebenzell 1990 (ISBN 3-87214-238-0 / 3-88002-424-3), p. 218-228 (= 18th century: Mission among Jews).

Further reading

• Werner Raupp: Callenberg, Johann Heinrich. In: The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. General Editors Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, vol. 1, London/New York 2010, p. 180–181.

External links

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Crawford Howell Toy and A. Rhine (1901–1906). "Callenberg, Johann Heinrich". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
• http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de Digital Bibliothek in Halle an der Saale
• http://www.francke-halle.de/ Foundation of Francke where Callenberg worked

References