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He was born on July 13, 1796 at Uebigau near Torgau, Germany, the son of Traugott August Seyffarth, clergyman.
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He was born on July 13, 1796 at Uebigau near Torgau, Germany, the son of Traugott August Seyffarth, clergyman.
He received an excellent classical training at St. Afra and then continued his studies at the University of Leipzig from 1815 to 1819, where he passed examinations for the ministry and obtained the Ph. D. degree.
He was appointed Docent in his alma mater and given the charge of completing, since he was the only one in the city who knew Coptic, the two volumes of F. A. W. Spohn's De lingua et literis veterum 'gyptiorum (1825 - 1831).
In order to equip himself better for the task, he visited public and private collections in numerous cities, particularly in southern Europe, from 1826 to 1828, and made a lot copies and impressions from Egyptian monuments and Coptic manuscripts. This material, "Bibliotheca 'gyptiaca Manuscripta, " in fourteen royal folio volumes and an index in quarto, became in 1885 the property of the New York Historical Society, to which he willed it.
In 1830 he was promoted to the first professorship of archeology at the University, and soon became involved in a lifelong controversy with the school of the French archeologist, Champollion. Since the Champollionists were given the curatorships in large museums, and Seyffarth found it increasingly difficult to publish his works and gain a following for his views, he resigned from the University in 1854 and emigrated two years later to the United States, thereby terminating at the same time unhappy domestic relations.
He taught for three years gratuitously in Concordia College, St. Louis, Missouri, and moved in 1859 to New York, where he preached at Yorkville. Together with other ministers he tried in vain to establish a theological seminary at Dansville.
His views on Roman Chronology are partly expressed in the Quarterly Review of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, January 1872. Seyffarth was a busy polyhistor, maintaining an extensive correspondence, and writing much for publication. He wrote his publications in Latin, German, and English, devoted mainly to classical and Oriental philology, archeology, astronomy, chronology, and apologetics.
One of his manuscripts is a treatise on aviation, with numerous designs for the construction of a dirigble airship. He also contributed articles to the Evangelical Review, July 1856, and July 1857; Quarterly Review of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, July 1886; and the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, volume IV (1886).
The last nine years of Seyffarth's life were spent in New York City, he died in 1885.
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Seyffarth claimed that Egyptian literature was based on ancient Coptic, related to Hebrew, the mother of all languages; that hieroglyphic signs were mainly phonograms, or syllabic writing; that the hieroglyph represented a syllabic composite derived from the alphabet of Noah, which consisted of eighteen consonants and seven vowels representative of the zodiac; and that all other alphabets were derived from this one.
His theology was severely orthodox, championing verbal inspiration and Saxon Lutheranism. He agreed with the older "Missouri Lutherans" except that he attacked slavery. He favored the chronology of the Septuagint and of the Church Fathers, which he regarded as confirmed by mathematical fact and differing by 2, 000 years from the vocalized Hebrew text of the Old Testament. In all of his interpretations there was an unwarrantable regard for unusual astronomical constellations.
Seyffarth was a man of vast erudition, with a marvelous memory for languages, but a speculative-dogmatic mentality was his bane.