Theile, Carl Gottfried Wilhelm

Theile, Carl Gottfried Wilhelm doctor and professor of theology, was born at Grosscorbetha, near Merseburg, Feb. 25, 1799, and died at Leipsic, Oct. 8, 1853. He wrote, De Trium Evangeliorum Necessitudine (Lips. 1823): —Notitia Novi Commentarii in Novum Testamentum (ibid. 1829): —Tabulae Rerum Dogmaticarum Compendiarim (ibid. 1830): —Christus und die Vernunft (ibid. 1830): — Commentarius in Epistolam Jacobi (ibid. 1839): —Zür Biographie Jesu (ibid. 1837): —Thesaurus Literatursae Theologicae Academicae, sive Recensus Dissertationum, etc. (ibid. 1840): —Pro Confessionis Religione adversus Confessionum Theologiam (ibid. 1850). Besides the above, he edited, together with R. Stier, Polyglotten-Bibel zum Handgebrauch (Bielefeld, 1854, and often, 6 vols.); he also edited Van der Hooght's Hebrew Bible (Leips. 1849, and. often), together with Explicatio Epicriseon Masorethicarum; Conspectus Lectionum, etc. This is one of the best editions of the Hebrew Bible. He also published, Novum Testamentum, Grece et Germanice (ibid. 1852, and often); and Novumn Testamentum Graeca, ex recognitione Knapii emendatius edidit argumentorum que notationes locos parallelos annotationem criticam et indices adjecit (7th ed. ibid. 1858; 11th ed. ibid. 1875, by Oscar von Gebhardt). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 419; Winer, Handbuch der theolog.

Literatur, 1, 85, 237, 302, 552; 2, 809; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2, 1320 sq.; Schurer, Theolog. Literaturzeitung, 1876, p. 1sq. (B. P.)