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See also:PAUL ANTON DE See also:LAGARDE (1827–1891) , See also:German biblical See also:scholar and orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 2nd of See also:November 1827 . His real name was Botticher, See also:Lagarde being his See also:mother's name . At Berlin (1844–1846) and See also:Halle (1846–1847) he studied See also:theology, See also:philosophy and See also:oriental See also:languages . In 1852 his studies took him to See also:London and See also:Paris . In 1854 he became a teacher at a Berlin public school, but this did not interrupt his biblical studies . He edited the Didascalia apostolorum syriace (1854), and other See also:Syriac texts collected in the See also:British Museum and in Paris . In 1866 he received three years' leave of See also:absence to collect fresh materials, and in 1869 succeeded Heinrich See also:Ewald as See also:professor of oriental languages at See also:Gottingen . Like Ewald, Lagarde was an active worker in a variety of subjects and languages; but his See also:chief aim, the elucidation of the See also:Bible, was almost always kept in view . He edited the Aramaic See also:translation (known as the See also:Targum) of the Prophets according to the Codex Reuchlinianus preserved at Carlsruhe, Prophetae chaldaice (1872), the Hagiographa chaldaice (1874), an Arabic translation of the Gospels, See also:Die vier Evangelien, arabisch aus der Wiener Handschrift herausgegeben (1864), a Syriac translation of the Old Testament Apocrypha, Libri V . T. apocryphi syriace (1861), a Coptic translation of the See also:Pentateuch, Der Pentateuch koptisch (1867), and a See also:part of the Lucianic See also:text of the See also:Septuagint, which he was able to reconstruct from See also:manuscripts for nearly See also:half the Old Testament . He devoted himself ardently to oriental scholarship, and published Zur Urgeschichte der Armenier (18J4) and Armenische Studien (1877) . He was also a student of See also:Persian, See also:publishing Isaias persice (1883) and Persische Studien (1884) . He followed up his Coptic studies with Aegyptiaca (1883), and published many See also:minor contributions to the study of oriental languages in Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1866), Symmicta (i . 1877, id . 188o), Semitica (i . 1878, ii . 1879), Orientalia (1879–I88o) and Mittheilungen (1884) . Mention should also be made of the valuable Onomastica sacra (187o; 2nd ed., 1887) . Lagarde also took some part in politics . He belonged to the Prussian Conservative party, and was a violent See also:anti-Semite . The bitterness which he See also:felt appeared in his writings . He died at Gottingen on the 22nd of See also:December 1891 . See the See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie; and cf . See also:Anna de Lagarde, See also:Paul de Lagarde (1894) .
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