Emil Friedrich Kautzsch was a German

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 Hebrew

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 scholar and biblical

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 critic, born at Plauen

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, Saxony

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. He was educated at Leipzig

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, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdocent

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 (1869) and professor

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 (1871). Subsequently he held chairs

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 at Basel

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 (1872-80) and Tübingen

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 (1880-88) and received a professorship at Halle

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 in 1888.

Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine

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 in 1876, and he became one of the founding members of the Palestine Exploration Society of Germany

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 the following year. He was also one of the editors of the Theologische Studien und Kritiken, beginning in 1888.

Kautzsch edited the following works:

• The 8th edition of Hermann Scholz's Abriss der Hebräischen Laut- und Formenlehre, (1899)
• The 10th and 11th editions of Hagenbach
  Karl Rudolf Hagenbach
  Karl Rudolf Hagenbach was a Swiss church historian.-Life:He was born at Basel, where his father was a practising physician. His preliminary education was at a Pestalozzian school, and afterwards at the gymnasium, whence in due course he passed to the newly reorganized local university...
  
  's Encykloädie und Methodologie (1880-1884)
• The 22nd through the 28th editions of Gesenius'
  Wilhelm Gesenius
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  Hebräische Grammatik, (last edition published in 1909)

In addition, Kautzsch wrote:

• Apokryphen und Pseudepigraphen des Alten Testaments, (1900), with other scholars
• Biblische Theologie des Alten Testaments, (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1911), published posthumously
• De Veteris Testamenti Locis a Paulo Apostolo Allegatis, (1869)
• Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramäischen, (1884)
• Heilige Schrift des Alten Testaments, (3rd edition, 1908-10), with other scholars