CASPARI, KARL PAUL. - Theologian and orientalist, b. in Dessau (Germany) on 8 Feb. 1814, d. in Christiania, today Oslo, on 11 Apr. 1892. Born a Jew, in 1858 he converted to Lutheranism. He studied in Leipzig, Berlin and Königsberg. A pupil of Hengstenberg, he held conservative tendencies. From 1848 he entered the University of Christiania as a lecturer; from 1857 he was professor of theology, a subject he no longer wished to leave.
He wrote an Arabic Grammar in usum scholarum in 2 vols., translated into several languages, and many works on the Old Testament, among them Der Prophet Obadja (Leipzig 1843); Beiträge zur Einleitung in das Buch Jesaja (Berlin 1848); Über den syrisch-ephrasmit. Krieg (Christiania 1849); studies on Micah (ibid. 1852) and on Daniel (Leipzig 1869). From 1858 to 1891 he had a directing part in the revision of the Bible in Norwegian. On the history of the symbols of the early Church he published the monumental work: Quellen zur Geschichte des Taufssymbols und der Glaubensregel (3 vols., Christiania 1866-1875), and other works of a biblical, patristic, and church-historical character (Kirchenhistorische Anekdota, ibid. 1885) in Norwegian (mainly in the journal Theologisk Tidskrift for den evangelisk-lutherske Kirke i Norge, which he founded with G. Johnson in 1857).
Bibliography2 worksJ. Belsheim, s. v. in Realenc. f. prot. Theol. u. Kirche, III, 3rd ed., pp. 737-42; F. Vigouroux, s. v. in DB. II, col. 331. Pietro de Ambro
BIBL.: J. Belsheim, s. v. in Realenc. f. prot. Theol. u. Kirche, III, 3rd ed., pp. 737-42; F. Vigouroux, s. v. in DB. II, col. 331.
De, Ambroggi Pietro. “Caspari, karl paul.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 991. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/caspari-karl-paul.
MLA
De, Ambroggi Pietro. “Caspari, karl paul.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 991. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/caspari-karl-paul.
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@incollection{ec3_caspari_karl_paul,
author = {De, Ambroggi Pietro},
title = {Caspari, karl paul},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {991},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/caspari-karl-paul}
}
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