Gesenius takes much of the credit for having freed Semitic philology from the trammels of theological and religious prepossession, and for inaugurating the strictly scientific (and comparative) method which has since been so fruitful.
Gesenius mengambil banyak kredit untuk membebaskan Semit filologi dari prasangka teologi dan agama, dan untuk meresmikan metode ilmiah yang ketat (dan komparatif) yang kemudian telah berbuah.