# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-friedrich-keil
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:25:37.074Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-friedrich-keil"
name: "Carl Friedrich Keil"
slug: "carl-friedrich-keil"
description: "Johann Friedrich Karl Keil or Carl Friedrich Keil was a conservative German Lutheran Old Testament commentator. Keil was appointed to the theological faculty of Dorpat in Estonia where he taught Bible, New Testament exegesis, and Oriental languages. In 1859 he was called to serve the Lutheran church in Leipzig. In 1887 he moved to Rödletz, where he died. Keil was a conservative critic who reacted strongly against the scientific biblical criticism of his day. He strongly supported Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. He maintained the validity of the historico-critical investigation of the Bible only if it proved the existence of New Testament revelation in the Scriptures. To this aim he edited his principal work, a commentary on the Bible, Biblischer Kommentar über das Alte Testament. The work remains his most enduring contribution to biblical studies. He also published commentaries on Maccabees and New Testament literature."
tagline: "German Lutheran theologian and Old Testament commentator (1807–1888)"
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birthDate: "1807-02-26"
deathDate: "1888-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump