HUPFELD, HERMANN (1796-1866), German orientalist and biblical commentator, was born on March 31, 1796, at Mar burg, and was educated in his native town and in Halle, where in 1824 he became a teacher in the university. In the following year he was appointed professor of theology at Marburg, but 13 years later returned to Halle, where he died on April 24, 1866.
Hupfeld's earliest works in Semitic philology (Exercitationes Aethiopicae, 1825, and De emendanda ratione lexicographiae Se miticae, 1827), were followed by the first part (1841) of his Aus f uhrliche Hebriiische Grammatik, and by his De rei gram maticae aped Judaeos initiis antiquissimisque scriptoribus (1846). His principal contribution to biblical literature was the ffJbersetzung and Auslegung der Psalmen (1855-61, 3rd ed. 1888) . Other writ ings are Uber Begriff and Methode der sogenannten biblischen Einleitung (1844) ; De primitiva et vera festorum aped Hebraeos ratione ; Die Quellen der Genesis von nexem (Inter sacht (1853); Die lieutige theosophische oder mythologisclie Theologie and Schri f terklarung (1861).
See E. Riehm, Hermann Hupfeld (Halle, 1867) ; W. Kay, Crisis Hupf eldiana (1865) ; and Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (i9oo) .