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a German Orientalist, was born Dec. 28, 1722, at Wernigerode. He studied philosophy, philology, and theology at Halle and Leipsic, and was in 1754 appointed professor at Helmstedt, where he died March 7, 1796. He published, Diss. in Auguralis de Primaeva Linguae Hebroeoe Antiquitate (Halle, 1747): — Evangelium Secundum Matthaeum ex Versione Ethiopica, etc. (ibid. 1749): — Evangel. Secundum Matthaeum ex Versione Persica, etc. (Helmstaidt, 1750): — Evangel. Secundum Marcum, Lucam et Johannemn ex Versione Persica, etc. (ibid. 1751): — Evangel. Secundum Marcum ex Versione Arabica, etc. (Brunswick, 1752):Novum N. J. Chr. Testamentum-ex Versione Ethiopica, etc. (ibid. 1752-55): — De Primaria Radicum Hebraeorum Significatione ex Dialectis Orientalibus (Helmstadt, 1754): — Fragmenta V. T. ex Versione Ethiopica, etc. (ibid. 1755): — De Spiritu Sancto, Dei Digito (ibid. 1758). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 124; Lichtenberger, Encyclopedie des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1, 126 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 64, 65, 102; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)