Heinrich Joseph Wetzer ( Anzefahr , Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), 19 March 1801 – Freiburg , Baden , 5 November 1853) was a German Orientalist. His greatest achievement was the part he took in the production of the first edition of the Kirchenlexikon for which he drew up the Nomenclator and which he edited with Benedict Welte .
4-418: Wetzer and Welte's Kirchenlexikon is an encyclopedic work of Catholic biography, history, and theology, first compiled by Heinrich Joseph Wetzer and Benedict Welte . The first edition in 12 volumes was published from 1847 to 1860, by Verlag Herder . Another edition, edited by Joseph Hergenröther and Franz Philip Kaulen and subtitled Encylopädie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Hülfswissenschaften ,
8-651: The University of Freiburg . Wetzer's interest in preserving the Catholic character of Freiburg, which had been founded and endowed as a Catholic university, incurred for him the odium of the Protestant professors, who, in the majority from 1846, excluded him from all academic positions. In 1850, Wetzer was appointed chief librarian of the university library. Wetzer composed anonymously the little work "Die Universität Freiburg nach ihrem Ursprunge..." (Freiburg, 1844). He had also begun
12-782: The study of Arabic, Persian and Syriac for eighteen months at the University of Paris , under the Orientalists De Sacy and Etienne Marc Quatremère . At the royal library of Paris he discovered an Arabian manuscript containing the history of the Coptic Christians in Egypt from their origin to the fourteenth century, which he afterwards edited in Arabic and Latin: "Taki-eddini Makrizii historia Coptorum Christianorum in Ægypto" (Sulzbach, 1828). In 1828, Wetzer became professor-extraordinary, and in 1830 professor-ordinary, of Oriental philology at
16-612: Was published in Freiburg from 1882 through 1903. This article about a book on the Catholic Church is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a reference book is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Heinrich Joseph Wetzer He studied theology and Semitic languages at the universities of Marburg (1820-3), Tübingen (1823), and Freiburg (1824), and graduated as doctor of theology and philosophy at Freiburg in 1824. He continued
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