KNABENBAUER, JOSEF. - Exegete, b. March 19, 1839 at Deggendorf (Bavaria), d. Nov. 12, 1911 at Maastricht. On Sept. 27, 1857 he entered the Society of Jesus.

A priest in 1871, he taught exegesis and Oriental languages at Ditton Hall and Valkenburg, and directed the periodicals Katholische Missionen and Stimmen aus Maria Laach. His works (all published in the collection Cursus Scripturae Sacrae, Paris) are extensive commentaries on the biblical books: Iob (1886); Prophetae minores (1886, 2nd ed. edited by M. Hagen 1924); Isaías (2 vols., 1887, 2nd ed. revised by Fr. Zorell 1922; this commentary had been published in German in 1881); Ieremias (1889); Ezechiel (1890); Daniel; Lamentationes; Baruch (1891, 2nd ed. revised by J. Linder 1939); Ecclesiastes (1902); III Machabees (1907). His commentaries on the New Testament are especially praised: Marcus (1894, 2nd ed. 1907, reprinted 1928); Actus Ap. (1899); Matthaeus (2nd ed. 1903, 3rd edited by A. Merli 1922); Lucas (2nd ed. 1905); Ioannes (1898, 2nd ed. 1905, reprinted 1928); Epistolae ad Ephes. Philip. Coloss. (1912); Epistolae ad Thessalonicenses; Epistolae Pastorales (1913).

He also published a great number of exegetical studies both in Stimmen aus Maria Laach and in the Lexicon biblicum of M. Hagen (3 vols., Paris 1905-11).

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: Necrologio, in Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, 81 (1912), pp. 476-77; L. Kösters, P. T. K., in Mitteil. des Jesuiten-Ordens, 1912, pp. 46-52.

Urbano Holzmeister

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