Buddensieg, Oskar Gottlieb Rudolf

BUDDENSIEG, būd´´den-sîg´, OSKAR GOTTLIEB RUDOLF: German Lutheran; b. at Greussen (25 m. n.w. of Weimar) Sept. 5, 1844. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic and Berlin (1864–67; Ph.D., Berlin, 1871), and studied in London in 1867–73. Returning to his native country, he was a teacher successively at the Andreanum in Hildesheim (1873–74) and at the Vitzthum gymnasium in Dresden (1874–87), declining a call to a professorship in the University of Vienna in 1886. From 1887 to 1894 he was director of a normal school for young men in Dresden, and thereafter held a similar position in a normal school for young women there. In 1883 he founded the Wyclif Society in London. He wrote: Die assyrischen Ausgrabungen und das Alte Testament (Heilbronn, 1880); Johann Wiclifs lateinische Streitschriften zum ersten Male aus den Handschriften herausgegeben (2 vols., Leipsic, 1883; Eng. ed., under the title John Wiclif's Polemical Works, 2 vols., London, 1884–85); Johann Wiclif and seine Zett (Halle, 1884); John Wiclif, Patriot and Reformer (London, 1884); and Johann Wiclifs De veritate sacræ scripturæ (3 vols., Leipsic, 1904; Eng. ed., 3 vols., London, 1905–07). Died at Dresden Oct. 13, 1908.