KARL

PAUL

See also:

• KARL PAUL CASPARI (1814-1892)

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