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DILLMANN, See also:CHRISTIAN See also:FRIEDRICH See also:AUGUST (1823-1894) , See also:German orientalist and biblical See also:scholar, the son of a See also:Wurttemberg schoolmaster, was See also:born at Illingen on the 25th of See also:April 1823. He was educated at See also:Tubingen, where he became a See also:pupil and friend of Heinrich See also:Ewald, and studied under F. C. See also:Baur, though he did not join the new Tubingen school. For a See also:short See also:time he worked as pastor at Gersheim, near his native See also:place, but he soon came to feel that his studies demanded his whole time. He devoted him-self to the study of Ethiopic See also:MSS. in the See also:libraries of See also:Paris, See also:London and See also:Oxford, and this See also:work caused a revival of Ethiopic study in the 19th See also:century. In 1847 and 1848 he prepared catalogues of the Ethiopic MSS. in the See also:British Museum and the Bodleian library at Oxford. He then set to work upon an edition of the Ethiopic See also:bible. Returning to Tubingen in 1848, in 1853 he was appointed See also:professor extraordinarius. Subsequently he became See also:Dill (A nethum or Peucedanum graveolens), See also:leaf and inflorescence. professor of See also:philosophy at See also:Kiel (1854), and of See also:theology at See also:Giessen (1864) and See also:Berlin (1869). He died on the 4th of See also:July 1894.

In 1851 he had published the See also:

Book of See also:Enoch in Ethiopian (German, 1853), and at Kiel he completed the first See also:part of the Ethiopic bible, Octateuchus Aethiopicus (1853–1855). In 1857 appeared his Grammatik der athiopischen Sprache (2nd ed. by C. Bezold, 1899); in 1859 the Book of See also:Jubilees; in 1861 and 1871 another part of the Ethiopic bible, Libri Regum ; in 1865 his See also:great See also:Lexicon linguae aethiopicae; in 1866 his Chrestomathia aethiopica. Always a theologian at See also:heart, however, he returned to theology in 1864. His Giessen lectures were published under the titles, Ursprung der alttestamentlichen See also:Religion (1865) and See also:Die See also:Prophet en See also:des See also:alien Bundes See also:mach ihrer politischen Wirksamkeit (1868). In 1869 appeared his Commentarzum Hiob (4th ed. 1891) which stamped him as one of the foremost Old Testament exegetes. His renown as a theologian, however, was mainly founded by the See also:series of commentaries, based on those of August Wilhelm Knobels' See also:Genesis (See also:Leipzig, 1895; 6th ed. 1892; Eng. trans. by W. B. See also:Stevenson, See also:Edinburgh, 1897); See also:Exodus and See also:Leviticus, 188o, revised edition by V. Ryssel, 1897; Numeri, Deuteronomium and Josua, with a dissertation on the origin of the See also:Hexateuch, 1886; Jesaja, 1890 (revised edition by See also:Rudolf Kittel in 1898).

In 1877 he published the See also:

Ascension of See also:Isaiah in Ethiopian and Latin. He, was also a contributor to D. See also:Schenkel's Bibellexikon, See also:Brockhaus's Conversationslexikon, and See also:Herzog's Realencyklopadie. His lectures on Old Testament theology, Vorlesungen uber Theologie des Alien Testamentes, were published by Kittel in 1895. See the articles in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; F. Lichtenberger, See also:History of German Theology in the Nineteenth Century (1889); See also:Wolf Baudissin, A. Dillmann (Leipzig, 1895).

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