a German linguist, son of Johann, and professor of Arabic at Leipsic, where he died, Jan. 23, 1745, is the author of Lexicon, Hebraicum Selectum, etc. (Leips. 1744): — Liturgiae Syriacae Septimamae Passionis (ibid. 1720): — De usu Linguae Arabicae in Exegesi Sacra; and many other works. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 181; Steinscmeider, Bibliog. Handbuch, p. 37; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 624; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)