NOWACK, n8"vdc', WILHELM GUSTAV HERMANN: German Lutheran; b. at Berlin Mar. 3,
1850. He was educated at the University of Berlin (Ph.D., Halle, 1872; Th. Lie., Berlin, 1873), and
became privat-docent there in 1875, and extraordinary professor in 1880. He was also supply at St.
Gertrud's, Berlin (1876-77), and pastor at the orphan
asylum at Rummelsburg, an eastern suburb of Berlin (1877-81). Since 1881 he has been professor of
Old-Testament exegesis and Hebrew at the University of Strasburg. He is also a canon of St.
Thomas, Strasburg, a member of the supreme consistory, and an overseer of the Protestant gymnasium at Strasburg, as well as a member of the
Deutsche Morgenlhndische Gesellschaft and of the
Strasburg Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft. In theology he is an adherent of the historical critical
school. He has written: Die
BedeWung des Hieronymua fur die alttestamentliche Textkrttik
(G6ttingen,
1875); Die aseyrisc)-babyloniachen Keilinschriften
and daa AIM Testament
(Berlin,
1878); Der Prophet Hosea erkldrt (1880); Die 8ozialen Problems
in Israel ursd deren Bedeutung fur die religibse F,nttsriekelung diesea Volke8
(Strasburg,
1892); HebrdisscAe Arehdologie (2 vols.,
Freiburg,
1894); Die
Zukunftahq$nungen 1sraels in der astyrischen Zeit
(Tubingen,
1902);
and
Texlausgabe der kleineren
Propheten
in Kittel's Bible
(1906).
He has prepared the second edition of E. Bertheau and F.
Hitzig's commentaries on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes for the
Kurzgefaastee ezegetiachm Handbluh
zum Allen Testament
(Leipsic,
1883);
the third
edition of H. Hupfeld's commentary on the
Psalms
(2 vols.,
Gotha,
1888);
and Amos and
Hosea for
Religionsgeachichtliche Volkabilcher (Til
bingen,
1908).
Since
1892
he has been the editorin-chief of the
Handkommentar zum Alters Testament,
to which he has contributed the volumes on the
Minor Prophets (G6ttingen,
1897;
2d ed.,
1903),
Judges and Ruth
(1900),
and Samuel
(1902).
NOWELL nS'el (VOWEL, NOEL), ALEXANDER: Dean of St. Paul's and preacher of the
Elizabethan period; b. at Read Hall, Whalley
(37
m. n.e. of Liverpool), County of Lancaster,
1507
or
1508;
d. at London Feb.
13, 1601
or
1602.
He was
educated at Middleton, near, Manchester, and at
Brasenose College, Oxford, which he entered at
thirteen. He was the " chamber-fellow " of Foxe
the martyrologist, and was made bachelor of arts in
1536
and master in
1540.
In
1543
he was appointed
master of Westminster School, London, he being
the second incumbent of that position; was licensed
to preach in
1550,
and in
1551
received a stall at
Westminster. He adopted the principles of the
Reformation, and, at the accession of Mary, fled
to the continent, where he tarried at Strasburg and
Frankfort, in intimate intercourse with the exiles,
who subsequently became eminent under Elizabeth. Returning to England at Elizabeth's accession, he was made archdeacon of Middlesex; and
canon of Canterbury in
1560;
and was appointed
one of the commissioners to visit several of the dio-
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of Calvin (1874-77) and is the author (in Swedish)
of "Bible Dictionary" (1868) and "Library of
Biblical Antiquities" (1874).
