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Oskar Braun

Oskar Braun

German Syriac scholar (1862–1931)

Oskar Braun (1862-1931) was a Syriac specialist and ordained Catholic priest. He was born in Dillingen an der Donau in 1862 and was ordained as a priest in 1885, becoming chaplain at Santa Maria dell’Anima. He studied languages with Ignazio Guidi while in Rome, and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Munich in 1890. He worked as a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Würzburg from 1894, and of patristics from 1907 until his retirement in 1927.[1] His work Ausgewählte Akten Persischer Märtyrer ("Selected Acts of Persian Martyrs"), published in 1915,[2] is still cited by scholars today. His Timothei Patriarchae I Epistulae, vol. 1, an edition and translation of Timothy I's letters, also remains current and was reprinted in 2009.[3]

Further reading

  • A.  Bigelmair, ‘Oskar Braun†’, Literarische Beilage der Augsburger Postzeitung, No. 34 (26 Aug. 1931).

References

  1. [1]
    Rompay, Lucas Van. "Braun, Oskar". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition.
  2. [2]
    Haase, Felix (1917). "Braun, Ausgewählte Akten persischer Märtyrer (Book Review)". Theologische Revue. 16–17: 16.
  3. [3]
    Braun, Oskar, ed. (2009-12-31). Der Katholikos Timotheos I und seine Briefe. Gorgias Press. doi:10.31826/9781463222758. ISBN 978-1-4632-2275-8.


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