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Bernstein, Georg Heinrich
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or a famous German Orientalist, was born Jan. 12, 1789. He was at first professor at Berlin, and after 1821 at Breslau; and died at Lauban in Silesia, April 5, 1860. He published, De Harklensi Novi Testamenti Translatione Syriaca Commentatio (2d ed. Vratislav. 1854): — Ankiindigung und Probe einer neuen kritischen Ausgabe und neuen Uebersetzung der Syrischen Chronik des Gregor Bar-Hebrceus (Berlin, 1847): — Das heilige Evangelium des Johannes. Syrisch srit Harklensischer Uebersetzung, etc. (Leipsic, 1853). Of his Lexicon Linguae Syriacce only the first part was published in Berlin in 1857. He also contributed largely to the Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenldndischen Gesellschafi. See Nowack, Schlesisches schriftsteller Lexicon; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, s.v.; Gosche, Wissenschaftlicher Jahresbericht, 1859-61, p. 8; Zenker, Bibl. Orientalis, s.v.; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. s.v.; Lichtenberger, Encyclopedie des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B. P.)
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bernstein, Georg Heinrich'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/b/bernstein-georg-heinrich.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
