Editing Wilhelm Gesenius (section)

== Works ==
[[File:Comparison tables in Gesenius's 1837 Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta.jpg|thumb|upright=3|Comparison tables in Gesenius's 1837 ''[[Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae]]'']]

* ''Versuch über die maltesische Sprache'' (1810).
* ''Hebräisches Lesebuch'' (1814).
* ''De Pentateuchi Samaritani origine, indole et auctoriate'' (1815).
* ''Geschichte der hebräischen Sprache und Schrift'' (1815).
* ''Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch'', 2 vols. (1810–12). English translation by [[Christopher Leo|Leo]] (1825–1828).
** ''Hebräisches und chaldäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament'' (1815; 18th ed. 2013). After the tenth edition ''chaldäisches'' was changed into ''aramäisches''. Various editions of this work have been translated into English by [[Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr.|Gibbs]] (1824, 1827, 1832), [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Robinson]] (1836, 1854), and [[Samuel Prideaux Tregelles|Tregelles]] (1859).
*** [[Brown–Driver–Briggs]] (2nd ed. 1907; corrected impression 1963) is based on Gesenius's work.
* ''Hebräische Grammatik'' (1813, 29th ed. 1929 by [[Gotthelf Bergsträsser]] [incomplete]). English translation by [[Arthur Cowley (librarian)|Arthur E. Cowley]] (2nd ed. 1910).
* ''Ausführliches grammatisch-kritisches Lehrgebäude der hebräischen Sprache mit Vergleichung der verwandten Dialekte'' (1817).
* ''De Samaritanorum theologia ex fontibus ineditis commentatio'' (1822).
* ''Paläographische Studien über Phönizische und Punische Schrift'' (1835).
* ''[[Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae]]'' (1837).
* ''Programma. Commentatio de Samaritanorum theologia'' (1824).
* ''Carmina samaritana e Codicibus Londinensibus et Gothanis'' (1824).
* ''Programma. De inscriptione phoenicio-graeca in Cyrenaica'' (1825).
* ''Genesis, Hebraice ad optima exemplaria accuratissime expressa'' (1828).
* ''Der Prophet Jesaia'', 3 vols. (1820–21, 2nd ed. 1829).
* ''Liber Job ad optima exemplaria accuratissime expressus'' (1829).
* ''Thesaurus philologicus criticus linguae Hebraeae et Chaldaeae veteris testamenti'', 3 vols. (started in 1829, completed posthumously by [[Emil Rödiger]] in 1858). Contains references to [[talmud]]ic works and Jewish Bible commentators such as [[Rashi]], [[Abraham ibn Ezra]], [[David Kimhi]].
* ''Disputatio de inscriptione punico-libyca'' (1835).
* ''De Bar Alio et Bar Bahlulo'', 2 vols. (1834–39).
* ''Über die Himjaritische Sprache und Schrift'' (1841).

Gesenius also contributed extensively to [[Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste|Ersch and Gruber's ''Encyclopädie'']], and enriched the German translation of [[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]]'s ''Travels in Syria and the Holy Land'' with valuable geographical notes. For many years he also edited the ''Halle Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung''. A sketch of his life was published by [[Rudolf Haym]] in 1843 (''Gesenius: eine Erinnerung für seine Freunde''), and another by Hermann Gesenius, ''Wilhelm Gesenius, ein Erinnerungsblatt an den hundertjährigen Geburtstag am 3. Februar 1886'', in 1886.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>{{citation | author=Fulcran Vigouroux | author-link=Fulcran Vigouroux | title=Dictionnaire de la Bible | volume=3 | pages=215–218 | year=1912 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Vigouroux_DB}}</ref><ref>{{citation | editor=Isidore Singer | editor-link=Isidore Singer |display-editors=etal | author=Wilhelm Bacher | author-link=Wilhelm Bacher | entry=DICTIONARIES, HEBREW | title=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] | year=1906 | volume=4 | pages=579–585}}</ref><ref>{{citation | author=Irene Garbell | entry=GESENIUS, HEINRICH FRIEDRICH WILHELM | title=[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] | edition=2nd | volume=7 | year=2007 | page=562}}</ref>