ADALBERT

See also:

• MERE
• ADALBERT MERE (1838-1909)

MERE (1838-1909)  , German theologian and orientalist, was born at Bleicherode near Nordhausen on the 2nd of November 1838 . He studied at Jena, where he became extraordinary professor in 1869 . Subsequently he was ordinaryprofessor of philosophy at Tubingen, and in 1873 professor of theology at Giessen . From 1875 till his death he was professor of theology of Heidelberg . In the course of his researches he made several journeys in the East . Among his many works are: Grammatica syriaca (1867–1870); Vocabulary of the Tigre language (1868); Das Gedicht vom Hiob (1871); Die Prophetic des Joel and ihre Ausleger (1879); Die Saadjanische Ubersetzung der Hohenlieder ins Arabische (1882); Chrestomathia targuynica (1888) ; Historia artis grammaticae aped Syros (1889); Ein samaritanisches Fragment (1893); Idee and Grundlinien einer allgemeiner Geschichte der Mystik (1893) . Merx devoted much of his later research to the elucidation of the Sinaitic palimpsest discovered in 1892 by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis (see BIBLE, iv . 321, ad fin.), the results being embodied in Die vier kanonischen Evangelien nach ihrem altestes bekannten Texte (1897–1905) . His last work was an edition of the books of Moses and Joshua . He died at Heidelberg on the 6th of August 1909 .