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JOHANN LEONHARD See also:HUG (1765-1846)
, See also:German See also:Roman See also:Catholic theologian, was See also:born at See also:Constance on the 1st of See also:June 1765
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In 1783 he entered the university of See also:Freiburg, where he became a See also:pupil in the See also:seminary for the training of priests, and soon distinguished himself in classical and See also:Oriental See also:philology as well as in biblical exegesis and See also:criticism
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In 1787 he became See also:superintendent of studies in the seminary, and held this See also:appointment until the breaking up of the See also:establishment in 1790
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In the following See also:year he was called to the Freiburg See also:chair of Oriental See also:languages and Old Testament exegesis; to the duties of this See also:post were added in 1793 those of the professorship of New Testament exegesis
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Declining calls to See also:Breslau, See also:Tubingen, and thrice to See also:Bonn, See also:Hug continued at Freiburg for upwards of See also:thirty years, taking an occasional See also:literary tour to See also:Munich, See also:Paris or See also:Italy
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In 1827 he resigned some of his professorial See also:work, but continued in active See also:duty until in the autumn of 1845 he was seized with a painful illness, which proved fatal on the 11th of See also: Wait, See also:London, 1827, and by Fosdick, New See also:York, 1836; See also:French partial See also:translation by J . E . Cellerier, See also:Geneva, 1823) . It is specially valuable in the portion See also:relating to the See also:history of the text (which up to the See also:middle of the 3rd See also:century he holds to have been current only in a See also:common edition (Kooi) EKSoeti), of which recensions were afterwards made by See also:Hesychius, an See also:Egyptian See also:bishop, by See also:Lucian of See also:Antioch, and by See also:Origen) and in its discussion of the ancient versions . The author's intelligence and acuteness are more completely hampered by doctrinal presuppositions when he comes to treat questions relating to the history of the individual books of the New Testament See also:canon . From 1839 to his See also:death Hug was a See also:regular and important contributor to the Freiburger Zeitschrift See also:fur kathol . Theologie . See A . Maier, Gedachtnisrede auf J . L . Hug (1847); K . See also:Werner, Geschichte der kath . Theol. in Deutschland, 527-533 (:866) . |
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