New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-06
OBITUARY..
oEoHG HEINRICH AUGUST Won EwALD.

GEORG HEINRICH AUGUST Won EWALD
A London telegram announces that GeOle
Heinrich August Van Ewad. one Of the greatest modern
Orirntausts il dead. He was born at GOtinSen NOV
1s 1903 and exhibited prediction for Oriental liter
Azure even in his schbOldays. He studied at the UNI
ye.!ty OF his native place and while still student wrote
work on the Composition Of Genesis In 1873 nc De-
cnme q teacher at the WOnenbuttei Gymnasium In
1927 extraordinary and in 1891 ordinary PROFESSOR OF
Philosophy at G0ttingen; and IN $3.50 was hpp0ihtcu
nominal Professor OF the oriental Language Travels
IN search of Oriental manuscripts lcd him. In 1925 lS@9
And $780, 10 Berlin Paris and Italy After the ce"th Oh
Ecborn the critical exegess OF the Old "as III
cdd ia his duties MS Professor Of the Oriental Tongues
The frat and most important fruit OF bis new iAoors WIS
his Critical Grammar Of the Hobrew Language ueZ0'
an ab-idgnent VI which was puolsiod al
I4,,so in 1895 under the title OF "Gram-
mar OF the Hebrew Language" ana sui
simpler epome in SAG, entitled Hebrew Grammar Tor
Degnncrs" Before this however, Ewad had acquired
high reputation by his work Canticles," Ills C"m-
mcntary on the Apocalypse" and his Poetlcai BOOKS
OF tie Old Testament" Between the years s43-IeDO
Ewad published al GOttugcn an Important wEfh ~ ION
volumes Oh the History OF tie People "f Erael ln!u
the Time OF hst, and subsidiary volume On the An
tuutics of the People OF Israel inc hlsloIy VI tno
People OF IsrarI" Iogether with its two combinations
Tue History Of Christ and HIS Time Gnd - nc IL,
tory of the AiOstOhc Age, j. regard az EWb' E.E
est work But TINS great scioiaf G.. MOI t' tS
1Jitngen embraced the literature Of the Aranc, Persian
Aranac and eaircrit tongues ana gave birth 10 sueh
UY II
somo of the Older Sanscrt Metres. epItJne OF tie
Arabic author WukIdi's wgrk On MtsOpotalnia. ana
"Gramlnar OF Arabic" In f532 Ewald published a, cot
tiprn several very important dissertations on Oriental
and Biblical literature, and planned WcAho"h pellpu
Teal 6uiiflad journal OF Eastern knowledge
Beside being "A scholar and l'.liOloKlst Ewaid was
a man OF strung political convictions, ana Iooh warm
interest In welfare Of hts people In 1897 he hnd SIX
OF his colleagues at the University protested aiht tbe
abolition of constitutional law and liberty Ia mover
Lv tho new sOvergn Ernest August Tho Crown having
disln -sed him from his PROFESSIONALLY Tor TINS manly ac
he went 20 England 10 Investigate the pu0c libraries
WIN he TuDngen,
Of theology. Here no remained FOR ten years, during
which involved in many stI1fes la ioil he Wa
ennobied by the King OF wurtomburg In II -, Lwad
returned G6ttngcn. where no established Year
book Biblical SCIENCE, in which, IN his wora on the
synOptic GOsPes' ana works ON the Epstles OF Pl,
he srOve give nrIHer basis To New Testament crlu'
csp and exegesis EwBd also paid great attention 10
I;LiOpic literature, result OF which was hs valuable
dissertation on the Book Of EnOch Ewhd wac
ii thcO0gian ana critic
l ma love for tho concrete forms IN which DIVINE trhts
are revealed In history and Ivy his dislike OF the aDStIac
tOns into which they refined away D O"ci-sprcu,
laaiyo theOlpelans. Re regarded II az the cslccai
glory Of the cgsh people tha They never O"I ssht %
IN Concrete, fnr Pertains and Hni0Os fO Example,
debut kept before them, up ia tne iulies %
time there Wa bonn among them jesus oI Nd@iCt W
Perfect and Only One IL whom hrnauly j. az go 10
Il itu contamination. He moi M td CIh hHb any
g. theological PARTIES IL Geibiur, aud Of "a /" Il"