Rahlfs, Otto Gustav Alfred

RAHLFS, rālfs, OTTO GUSTAV ALFRED: German Protestant; b. at Linden (now a part of Hanover) May 29, 1865. He was educated at the universities of Halle and Göttingen (Ph.D., 1887), was inspector of the theological seminary at Göttingen (1888–90), became privat-docent at the university of the same city in 1891, titular professor in 1896, and associate professor of Old-Testament exegesis and Hebrew in 1901. He has written Des Gregorius Abulfarag Anmerkungen zu den salomonischen Schriften (Leipsic, 1887); Anī und Anāw in den Psalmen (Göttingen, 1891); Die Berliner-Handschrift des sahidischen Psalters (Berlin, 1901); and Septuaginta-Studien, vols. i.–ii. (Göttingen, 1904–07). He is also an editor of the Zeitschrift für alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and of the Theologische Litteraturzeitung.