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JOHANN LEONHARD HUG (1765-1846)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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:March 1846 . Hug's earliest publication was the first See also:instalment of his Einleitung; in it he argued with much acuteness against J . G . See also:Eichhorn in favour of the " borrowing See also:hypothesis " of the origin of the synoptical gospels, maintaining the priority of See also:Matthew, the See also:present See also:Greek See also:text having been the See also:original . His subsequent See also:works were See also:dissertations on the origin of alphabetical See also:writing (See also:Die Erfindung der See also:Buck., stabenschrift, 18o1), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (181o), and on See also:ancient See also:mythology (Ober den Mythos der See also:alien Volker, 1812) ; a new See also:interpretation of the See also:Song of See also:Solomon (Das See also:hope Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813), to the effect that the See also:lover re-presents See also:King See also:Hezekiah, while by his beloved is intended the remnant See also:left in See also:Israel after the See also:deportation of the ten tribes; and See also:treatises on the indissoluble See also:character of the matrimonial See also:bond (De conjugii cheistiani vincula indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816) and on the Alexandrian version of the See also:Pentateuch (1818) . His Einleitung in die Schriften See also:des Neuen Testaments, undoubtedly his most imrtant work, was completed in 1808 (See also:fourth German edition, 1847 po; See also:English See also:translations by D . G .

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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