Buhl, Frants Peder William Meyer

BUHL, būl, FRANTS PEDER WILLIAM MEYER: Danish Semitic scholar; b. at Copenhagen Sept. 6, 1850. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D., 1878), and was successively professor of Old Testament exegesis at Copenhagen (1882–90) and Leipsic (1890–98). In 1898 he was recalled to the University of Copenhagen as professor of Semitic languages, a position which he still holds. In theology he is dogmatically conservative, but liberal in isagogics. Since 1900 he has been a member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Copenhagen. In addition to numerous briefer contributions, he has written: Jesaja oversat og fortolket (8 parts, Copenhagen, 1889–94); Gennesaret Sö og dens Omgivelser (1889); Palästina i kortfattet geografisk og topografisk Fremstilling (1890); Kanon und Text des Alten Testaments (Leipsic, 1891; Eng. transl. by J. Macpherson, Edinburgh, 1892); Det israelitiske Folks Historie (Copenhagen, 1892); Geschichte der Edomiter (Leipsic, 1893); De messianske Forjættelser i det Gamle Testament (1894); Til Vejledning i de gammeltestamentlige Undersögelser (1895); Geographie des alten Palästina (Freiburg, 1896); Hebraisk Syntax (Copenhagen, 1897); Die socialen Verhältnisse der Israeliten (Berlin, 1899); Psalmerne oversatte og fortolkede (12 parts, Copenhagen, 1898–1900); and Muhammeds Liv (1903). He has also collaborated in editing the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth editions of the hebräisches und aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament of Gesenius (Leipsic, 1895–1905).