Hermann Guthe (theologian)

He was educated at Göttingen and Erlangen, and afterwards worked for several years as a private tutor.

From 1877 to 1896 he edited the Zeitschrift, and from 1897 to 1906 the Mitteilungen and Nachrichten, of the German Palästina-Verein, full name: Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas ("German Association for the Study of Palestine"), which he co-founded in 1877.

On the first trip he participated in an excavation on the southeast hill of Jerusalem, and in 1894 and 1912, he was in Palestine in order to determine research opportunities on behalf of the association.

[2] He wrote on some of the minor prophets in Emil Friedrich Kautzsch's translation of the Old Testament and a metrical version of Amos (1907) with Eduard Sievers.

[3] His published work was in the fields of philology and religion and of archæology and topography, the more important titles being: He was also a contributor to the 1903 Encyclopaedia Biblica.