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KARL PAUL CASPARI (1814-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:CASPARI (1814-1892)  , See also:German Lutheran theologian and orientalist, was See also:born of Jewish parents at See also:Dessau, See also:Anhalt, on the 8th of See also:February 1814 . He studied at See also:Leipzig and See also:Berlin, became a See also:Christian in 1838, and in 1857 was appointed See also:professor of See also:theology at See also:Christiania, having declined invitations to See also:Rostock and See also:Erlangen . He died at Christiania on the 11th of See also:April 1892 . See also:Caspari is best known as the author of an Arabic See also:grammar (Grammatica Arabica, 2 vols., 1844-1848; new edition, Arabische Grammatik, edited by A . See also:Muller; 5th ed . 1887) . He also wrote commentaries on the prophetical books of the Old Testament, dogmatic and See also:historical See also:works on See also:baptism, and from 1857 helped to edit the Theologisk Tidskrift for den evangelisk-lutherske See also:Kirke i Norge . His writings include: Beitrage zur Einleitung in Jesaja (1848), and Alte and neue Quellen zur Geschichte See also:des Taufsymbols and der Glaubensregel (1879) .

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