Adalbert Merx. Adalbert Merx (2 November 1838 Bleicherode 6 August 1909 Heidelberg) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.

Biography

He studied at the University of Jena, where he became extraordinary professor in 1869. Subsequently he was ordinary professor of philosophy at the University of T bingen, and in 1873 professor of theology at the University of Giessen. From 1875 till his death he was professor of theology of the University of Heidelberg. In the course of his researches he made several journeys in the East.

Merx devoted much of his later research to the elucidation of the Sinaitic Palimpsest discovered in 1892 by Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, the results (Die Evangelien des Markus und Lukas nach der Syrischen im Sinaikloster gefundenen Palimpsesthandschrift) being embodied in Die vier kanonischen Evangelien nach dem ltesten bekannten Texte (4 vols., 1897 1905). His last work was an edition of the books of Moses and Joshua.

Works

Among his many works are:

• Grammatica syriaca (1867 1870)
• Vocabulary of the Tigre language (1868)
• Das Gedicht vom Hiob (1871)
• Die Prophetie des Joel und ihre Ausleger (1879)
• Die Saadjanische bersetzung der Hohe Liedes ins Arabische (1882)
• Chrestomathia Targumica (1888)
• Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros (1889)
• Ein samaritanisches Fragment (1893)
• Idee und Grundlinien einer allgemeiner Geschichte der Mystik (1893)
• Die B cher Moses und Josua; eine Einfuhrung fur Laien (1907)
• Der Messias oder Ta'eb der Samaritaner, nach bisher unbekannten Quellen (1909)

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