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HERMANN HUPFELD (1796-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN See also:HUPFELD (1796-1866)  , See also:German Orientalist arid Biblical commentator, was See also:born on the 31st of See also:March 1796 at See also:Marburg, where he studied See also:philosophy and See also:theology from 1813 to 1817; in 1819 he became a teacher in the gymnasium at See also:Hanau, but in 1822 resigned that See also:appointment . After studying for some See also:time at See also:Halle, he in 1824 settled as Privatdocent in philosophy at that university, and in the following See also:year was appointed extraordinary See also:professor of theology at Marburg . There he received the See also:ordinary professorships of See also:Oriental See also:languages and of theology in 1827 and 1830 respectively; thirteen years later he removed as successor of Wilhelm Gesenius See also:HURD-HURDY-GURDY The See also:chief See also:sources for See also:Bishop Hurd's See also:biography are " See also:Dates of some occurrences in the See also:life of the author," written by himself and pre-fixed to vol. i. of his See also:works (1811); ` See also:Memoirs of Dr Hurd " in the Ecclesiastical and University . . . See also:Register (1809), pp . 399-452; See also:John See also:Nichols, See also:Literary anecdotes, vol. vi . (1812), pp . 468-612; See also:Francis Kilvert, Memoirs of . . . See also:Richard Hurd (1860), giving selections from Hurd's See also:commonplace See also:book, some See also:correspondence, and extracts from contemporary accounts of the bishop . A See also:review of this See also:work, entitled " Bishop Hurd and his Contemporaries," appeared in the See also:North See also:British Review, vol. xxxiv . (1861), pp .

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