Caspari

Caspari, KARL PAUL, exegete and church historian, born at Dessau in 1814, became professor of Theology at Christiania in 1857. His Arabic grammar (4th ed. Halle, 1875) is in high repute, and his contributions to the study of the old Testament include works on Obadiah, Isaiah, Micah, and Daniel. Besides his Kirchenhistorische Anecdota (1883), he published at Christiania Quellen zur Geschichte des Taufsymbols und der Glaubensregel (2 vols. 1866-69), extensions of which appeared in 1875 and 1879. He died 11th April 1892.