Augustin Merk (1869-1945), scholar

Augustin Merk (1869-1945) was a German scholar.

Biography

Augustin Merk was born in Achern, Baden in 1869.

In 1888 he joined the Jesuit Order in the Netherlands. He studied Patristics and Philology in Munchen, Germany and Beirut, Lebanon (1903-1907). Since 1928 he was Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome.

Merk died in Rome in 1945.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Commentarius in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum (1922 Knabenbauer, Merk), book (revised ed.)

• Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (1933 Merk), book

• Actus Apostolorum Graece (1936 Merk), book

External links

• [ Wikipedia]