Albrecht Alt (20 September 1883 in Stübach (
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) – 24 April 1956 in
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Eldest son of a Protestant minister, he completed high school in Ansbach and studied theology at the Friedrich Alexander university attending Nuremberg and the University of Leipzig. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate for the office of Lecturer at Munich Predigerseminar.
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Albrecht Alt (20 September 1883 in Stübach (
FranconiaFranconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a part of southern Thuringia, and a much smaller region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Heilbronn-Franken...
) – 24 April 1956 in
LeipzigLeipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
), was a leading
GermanGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
ProtestantProtestantism is a branch within Christianity, containing many denominations with some differing practices and doctrines, that principally originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the major divisions within Christianity, together with the Roman...
theologianThe term "theology" literally means the study of God, deriving from the Greek word theos, meaning 'God', and the suffix -ology from the Greek word logos meaning "discourse", "theory", or "reasoning"...
.
Eldest son of a Protestant minister, he completed high school in Ansbach and studied theology at the Friedrich Alexander university attending Nuremberg and the University of Leipzig. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate for the office of Lecturer at Munich Predigerseminar. In 1908 he was a scholarship holder of the German Evangelist institute for Antiquity and undertook his first Palestine journey. In the same year he became a supervisor of the theological College in Greifswald. In 1909 he wrote
Israel and Egypt as part of his Doctorate at the University of Greifswald.
In 1912 he became an extraordinary professor in Greifswald, an in 1914 was named by Bernhard Duhm as a Professor at the University of Basel. During the First World War he served as a Leader in the Cartography Department of the German Eastern Army. After the war he was again appointed a professor in Basel, then Probost of the Erlöserkirche in Jerusalem. In 1921 he was appointed to the Halle University, in 1923 to the University of Leipzig, although he was given one year off to completion of his activities in
JerusalemJerusalem is the capital of Israel and its largest city in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if disputed East Jerusalem is included...
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Major Works
- "The God of the fathers. A contribution for the prehistory of Israeli"; (Contributions to the science of the old person and new will 3.12); Kohl hammer: Stuttgart 1929.
- "A New View on the origin of the Hyksos"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig. Philological-historical class 101.6); Academy publishing house: Berlin 1954.
- "Brief writing on the history of the people of Israel". Selection in a volume; Evangelist publishing house: Berlin 1962 [1963].
- "The city state of Samaria"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig. Philological-historical class 101.5); Academy publishing house: Berlin 1954.
- "The origins of Israeli"; (Reports on the negotiations of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences to Leipzig, philological-historical class 86.1); Hirzel: Leipzig 1934.
- "Peoples and states of Syria in early antiquity"; (The old Orient: in common-understandable representations 34.4); Hinrichs: Leipzig 1936.