Friedrich Eduard König


Friedrich Eduard König was a German Lutheran divine and Semitic scholar.

Biography

He was born at Reichenbach im Vogtland and was educated at the University of Leipzig. Afterwards, he worked as a religious instructor at the Royal Realgymnasium in Döbeln and at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig. He then became a lecturer and an associate professor of theology at the University of Leipzig. In 1888 he became a full professor at Rostock and in 1900 at the University of Bonn, where, as a theologian attacking Panbabylonism, he became involved in the so-called "Babel-Bible Dispute".

Published works

As a linguist he attempted to apply the phonetic and physiological methods of modern philology to Hebrew and Ethiopic in such works as
Among his innumerable publications are also: