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MAIER, ADALBERT. - Catholic exegete, b. at Villingen (Baden) on Apr. 26, 1811, d. at Freiburg im Br. on July 29, 1889. From 1840 he taught New Testament exegesis at Freiburg, distinguishing himself by his historical-critical and philological method, and he served four times as pro-rector of the University.
1 courtesy of Dr. B. Degenhart MAI, ANGELO - Portrait - Vatican Library.His principal works all relate to the introduction, exegesis, and biblical theology of the New Testament: Exegetisch-dogmatische Entwicklung der neutestamentlichen Begriffe von Ζωή, Ἀνάστασις und Κρίσις (Freiburg i. Br. 1840); Commentar über das Evangelium des Johannes (2 vols., ib. 1843-45); Commentar über den Brief Pauli an die Römer (ib. 1847); Historisch-kritische Untersuchungen über den Hebräerbrief (ib. 1851; he attributes it to Barnabas); Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testamentes (ib. 1852); Die Glossolalie des apostolischen Zeitalters exegetisch-kritisch beleuchtet (ib. 1855); Commentar über den ersten Brief Pauli an die Korinther (ib. 1857); Commentar über den Brief an die Hebräer (ib. 1861); Commentar über den zweiten Brief Pauli an die Korinther (ib. 1865); Exegetisch-kritische Untersuchungen über die Christologie (ib. 1871). He was also a regular contributor to the Zeitschrift für Theologie, of which he was co-editor (1842-49), and contributed numerous articles on biblical history and archaeology to the Kirchen-Lexikon.
BIBL.: J. König, s. V. in Badische Biographien, IV, Karlsruhe 1891, pp. 324-58; Freiburger Diöcesan-Archiv, new series, 1 (1900), p. 231 ff.; Lauchert, s. V. in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, LII, Lippia 1906, p. 152 ff. Adalberto Metzinger
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“MAIER, ADALBERT.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), p. 1100. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/maier-adalbert.
