Hermann Guthe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Hermann Guthe

German theologian and orientalist

Date of Birth: 10-May-1849

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1936

Profession: theologian, university teacher, archaeologist, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hermann Guthe (May 10, 1849, Westerlinde - August 11, 1936, Leipzig) was a German Semitic scholar. He was educated at Göttingen and Erlangen, and afterwards worked for several years as a private tutor.
In 1884 he became a professor of Old Testament exegesis at Leipzig University. From 1877 to 1896 he edited the Zeitschrift, and from 1897 to 1906 the Mitteilungen and Nachrichten, of the German Palästina-Verein, full name: Deutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palästinas ("German Association for the Study of Palestine"), an association that he was a co-founder of in 1877.In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in Palestine.
On the first trip he participated in an excavation on the southeast hill of Jerusalem, and in 1894 and 1912, he was in Palestine in order to determine research opportunities on behalf of the association.