KÖNIG, EDUARD. — Learned philologist and exegete of the Old Testament, born at Reichenbach on 15 November 1846, died at Bonn on 12 February 1936. A conservative Protestant, he taught at the Universities of Leipzig (from 1885), Rostock, and finally Bonn.
He published many important works; he also wrote in Biblica. His greatest merits lie in the field of Hebrew philology and in his role as a courageous, tenacious, and intelligent opponent (despite his sometimes overly forceful tone and certain questionable opinions) of the Wellhausen system and related critical approaches. Particularly noteworthy is the insistence with which he advocated the distinction between legitimate religion and “popular” religion in the Old Testament.
(from N. P. K., Histoire et monuments des émaux byzantins, Frankfurt 1891)
KONDAKOV, NICODIM PAULOVITCH — Portrait drawn by F. Gaillard.
und Poetik in Bezug auf die bibl. Literatur (there 1900); Die Poetie des Altes Test. (there 1907); Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Test. (there 1910; 5th ed. there 1931); other exegetical works, such as the commentaries on several individual books of the Bible, and Der Offenbarungsbegriff des Alten Test. (2 vols., Leipzig 1882); Die Hauptprobleme der altsrael. Religionsgeschichte (there 1884); Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Bonn 1893); Die Originalität des neulich entdeckten hebr. Strachtextes textkritisch, exegetisch und sprachgeschichtlich untersucht (Freiburg 1899); Das altset. Prophetentum und die moderne Geschichtsforschung (Gütersloh 1910); Geschichte der altset. Religion (there 1912; 2nd ed. there 1915; 3rd–4th ed. there 1924); Die moderne Pentateuchkritik und ihre neueste Bekämpfung (Leipzig 1914); Die messianischen Weisagungen des Altes Test. (Stuttgart 1923); Der doppelte Wollhausenismus in Lichte meiner Quellenforschungen (Gütersloh 1927); Ist die moderne Pentateuchkritik auf Tatsachen begründet? (Stuttgart 1933). To these works must be added the numerous articles that K. published in various periodicals.