Johann Benedikt Carpzov (1720-1803), scholar
Johan Benedikt Carpzov (1720-1803) was a German scholar.
Biography
Member of a family of German lawyers and theologians 6. Johann Benedikt Carpzov: Classical scholar and theologian, grandson of Johann Benedikt the Younger; b. at Leipsic May 20, 1720; d. at K�nigslutter (9 m. w.n.w. of Helmst�dt) Apr. 18, 1803.
425 He was educated at the university of his native city, where he was appointed associate professor in 1747, but was called in the following year as professor of Greek to Helmst�dt, and in 1757 became abbot of K�nigslutter. Adhering to the orthodoxy of his family, he was commissioned by the duke to save the reputation of the university, endangered by the rationalism of Albrecht Teller, and he accordingly published his Liber doctrinalis theologi� purioris (Brunswick, 1768). His philological learning was shown in his editions of the classics and in his Sacr� ezercitationes in epistolam ad Hebr�os ex Philone Alexandrino (Helmst�dt, 1750); Strictur� theologic� in epistolam S. Pauli ad Romanos (1756); and Epistolarum catholicarum septenarius (Halle, 1790). His lectures, which he delivered in Latin, were devoted to classics, the New Testament, patristics, and Dolscius's Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
External links
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