Johann Jahn
Johann Jahn (18 June 1750 in
) was a German orientalist.Biography
He studied at the
Znaim. Having been ordained in 1775, he for a short time held a cure at Misslitz
, but was soon recalled to Bruck as professor of Oriental languages and Biblical hermeneutics.
On the suppression of the convent by
Catholic
theologians in coming into conflict with his 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 judgment, the hostility of his opponents did not cease until at last (1806) he was compelled to accept a canonry at
St Stephens
, Vienna, which involved the resignation of his 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 (1805). The only work of importance, outside the region of mere philology, afterwards published by him, was the Enchiridion Hermeneuticae (1812).
Works
- Einleitung ins Alte Testament (2 vols., 1792)
- Hebräische Sprachlehre fur Anfänger (1792)
- Aramäische od. Chaldäische u. Syrische Sprachlehre für Anfänger (1793)
- Arabische Sprachlehre (1796)
- Elementarbuch der hebr. Sprache (1799)
- Chaldäische Chrestomathie (1800)
- Arabische Chrestomathie (1802)
- Lexicon arabico-latinum chrestomathiae arabicae accommodatum (Vindobonae, Wappler et Beck, 1802)
- Introductio in libros sacros veteris foederis in compendium redacta (1804; 3rd ed., 1825; translated into English by Turner and Whittingham, New York, 1827)
- Archaeologia biblica in compendium redacta (1805) The English translation by T. C. Upham (1840) has passed through several editions.
- an edition of the Hebrew Bible (1806)
- Grammatica linguae hebraicae (1809)
- Enchiridion Hermeneuticae (1812)
- Vaticinia prophetarum de Jesu Messia, a critical commentary on the Messianic passages of the Old Testament (1815)
- Nachträge, six dissertations on Biblical subjects (1821)
References
- Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). . The American Cyclopædia.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jahn, Johann". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Karl Werner (1881), "Jahn, Johann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 13, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 665–667
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