Nowack, Wilhelm Gustav Hermann

Ph.D. (Halle, 1872), Lie. Theol. (Berlin, 1873), D.D. (Berlin, 1883), German Protestant; b. in Berlin, March 3, 1850; studied at Berlin, 1869-73; became inspector in the Berlin Johanneum, 1872 temporary Divisionspfarrer, 1875; Pfarrverweser at St. Gertrud's in Berlin, 1876, and in the orphanage of Rummelsburg, near Berlin, 1877; privaldocent at Berlin, 1875; profe or extraordinary of theology, 1880; ordinary profe or at Stra burg, 1881. He belongs to the his to rico-critical school of Ewald-Dillmann. He is the author of Die Bedeutung des Hieronymus fur die alttestamentliche Textkritik, Gottingen, 1875; Die a yrisch-babylonischen Keilinschriften und das Alte l^estament, Berlin, 1878; Der Prophet Hosea erklart, 1880; edited second edition of E. Bertheau on Proverbs, and of F. Hitzig on Ecclesiasles, in the Kurzgefa l, exegetisches Handbuch zum Alten Testament, Leipzig, 1883.