Jakob Georg Christian Adler (8 December 1756 in Arnis

Arnis

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 near Kappeln

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, Schleswig – 22 August 1834 in Giekau

Giekau

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 near Lütjenburg

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Luetjenburg is a town of the district of Ploen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located approx. northeast of Ploen, and east of Kiel.-History:thumb|left|Lütjenburg um 1895...

) was a German Generalsuperintendent for Holstein

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 and Schleswig

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, Orientalist

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, Syriac language

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  professor

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 at the University of Copenhagen

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, Lutheran theologian, Oberkonsistorialrat, book writer

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, religious educator, coin collector

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 and head of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Bibelgesellschaft.

Biography

Jacob Georg Christian Adler was the son of Georg Christian Adler

Georg Christian Adler

Georg Christian Adler was a German scholar.Adler was born in Brandenburg, and studied theology at the University of Halle. In 1755, he was appointed preacher in Arnis, Schleswig; in 1758 in Sarau; and in 1759 in Altona...

 and a relative of Caspar Aquila

Caspar Aquila

Caspar Aquila , also Kaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, Gaspar Aquila, birth name Johann Kaspar Adler, was a German reformer, who was born at Augsburg. Educated at Augsburg and at Ulm , in Italy , at Bern , studied theology in Leipzig and Wittenberg...

 and Matthias Claudius

Matthias Claudius

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. Adler received private education from his father and attended the Christianeum Hamburg

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. Then he studied theology at the University of Kiel

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 and oriental studies under Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen was a German Orientalist and Hebrew scholar. He is known today as one of the founding fathers of Islamic numismatics....

 at the University of Bützow and Rostock. He wrote several books on Syriac language and ancient Arabian language, about a long stay in Rome

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 etc.

Work

• Beschreibung der Stadt Rom. Kiel: Carl Ernst Bohn 1781 (published by his brother)
• Reise nach Rom. Altona 1783
• Sammlung v. gerichtlichen jüdischen Contrakten. Hamburg u. Bützow 1773, 2. Aufl., Altona 1792
• Judæorum codicis Sacri rite scribendi leges, ad recte æstimandos codices manuscriptos antiquos perutiles; e libello Thalmudico מסכת ספרים in Latinum conversas. Hamburg 1779
• Faksimilia kufischer Koranhandschriften der Kgl. Bibliothek in Kopenhagen mit einer Untersuchung über die arabischen Schriftentwicklung. Kopenhagen 1780
• Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris, Bd. I. Rom 1787, Bd. II, Kopenhagen 1792
• Novi testamenti versiones Syriacae, simplex Philoxeniana et Hierosolymitana. Kopenhagen 1789
• Annalen des Abulfida - Herausgeber des von J. J. Reiske bearbeiteten u. übersetzten Werkes (5 Bde.). Kopenhagen 1789-95

Literature about Adler

• August Hennings (?): Schleswig-Holsteinische Kirchen-Agende. In: Der Genius der Zeit 13 (1798), S. 369-375
• H[ennings]., A[ugust].: Einladung zur Aufmerksamkeit auf einen geheimen, und iezt vielleicht noch allgemein unerkannt gebliebenen Grund der Agende {Streitigkeiten in den Herzogthümern Schleswig und Holstein}. In: Der Genius der Zeit 15 (1798), S. 1-7
• H[ennings]., A[ugust].: Schleswig Holsteinische Kirchenagende. In: Der Genius der Zeit 15 (1798), S. 404-405

• Die Vorfahren des Generalsuperintendenten A., in: Schriftenreihe des Vereins f. schleswig-holsteinische Kirchengeschichte, Rh. 2, Bd. 5, 1910-13; S. 213 ff.
• Anton Baumstark: Geschichte der syrischen Literatur [...] 1922; S. 144
• O. F. Arends: Gejstligheden i Slesvig og Holsten fra Reformationen til 1864 - Personalhistoriske Untersogelser. Kopenhagen 1932
• Dansk biografisk Leksikon, Bd. I. 1933; S. 129 ff.
• F. Rosenthal: Die aramaistischen Forschungen seit dem 20. Jhd. - Nöldeke's Veröffentlichungen. Leiden 1939; S. 144 f.
• Joh. W. Fück: Die arabischen Studien in Europa bis in den Anfang des 20. Jhd., 1955; S. 218 (Fn. S. 557)
• Allg. Deutsche Biographie (55 Bde. und 1 RBd.). Leipzig 1875-1912; Bd. I, S. 85 f.
• Neue Deutsche Biographie. Berlin 1953 ff.; Bd. I, S. 70 f.
• Kurt Galling (Hrsg.): Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart - Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (6 Bde.). Tübingen 1957-1962; RBd. 1965, Teil I, S. 96 f.
• Walter Kasper et al. (Hrsg.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 3. Aufl. Freiburg 1993 ff.; Bd. I, 148 f.
• Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Paris 1912 ff.; Bd. I, S. 573
• Dr. Werner Aquila: Die Nachfahren Leonhard Adlers später Aquila aus Augsburg. Sonderdruck des Genealogischen Jahrbuches (hrsgg. von der Zentralstelle für Personen- und Familiengeschichte, Bd. 44. Neustadt/Aisch: Verlag Degener & Co. 2004)

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