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In 1833 he was called to the University of Zürich as professor ordinarius of theology.

His next work was a commentary on Isaiah with a translation ( Übersetzung und Auslegung des Propheten Jesaias ), which he dedicated to Heinrich Ewald, and which Hermann Hupfeld ( 1796 – 1866 ), well known as a commentator on the Psalms ( 1855 – 1861 ), pronounced to be his best exegetical work.

At Zürich he laboured for a period of twenty-eight years, during which, besides commentaries on The Psalms ( 1835 – 1836 ; 2nd ed., 1863 – 1865 ), The Minor Prophets ( 1838 ; 3rd ed., 1863 ), Jeremiah ( 1841 ; 2nd ed., 1866 ), Ezekiel ( 1847 ), Daniel ( 1850 ), Ecclesiastes ( 1847 ), Canticles ( 1855 ), and Proverbs ( 1858 ), he published a monograph, Über Johannes Markus und seine Schriften ( 1843 ), in which he maintained the chronological priority of the second gospel.

He wrote works of archaeological interest, of which the most important are Die Erfindung des Alphabets ( 1840 ), Urgeschichte und Mythologie der Philister ( 1845 ), and Die Grabschrift des Eschmunezar ( 1855 ).