Carl Siegfried


Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried was a German theologian who specialized in Old Testament studies.
He studied theology and philology at the universities of Halle and Bonn. In 1859, he received his doctorate from Halle, and afterwards worked as a teacher at the cathedral gymnasium in Magdeburg and at the regional school in Pforta. In 1875, he was appointed professor of Old Testament theology at the University of Jena.

Selected works

Spinoza als Kritiker und Ausleger des Alten Testaments, 1867 - Spinoza as a critic and interpreter of the Old Testament.Philo von Alexandria als Ausleger des Alten Testaments. 1875 - Philo of Alexandria as an interpreter of the Old Testament.Lehrbuch der neuhebräischen Sprache und Litteratur. 1884 - Textbook of modern Hebrew language and literature.Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und V. Diez, In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 1, 1890, S. 24–41 - Correspondence between Goethe and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez.
Siegfried was the author of many articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.