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a Swedish philologian, was born March 3, 1707, at Lund, and educated at the universities of Upsala, Greifswald, Jena, and Halle. At the last-named high school he afterwards lectured for a time on the Oriental languages, then traveled extensively in Germany, Holland, England, and France, and on his return to his native country was appointed librarian at Upsala University. In 1737 he was appointed professor of poetry, and the year following professor of rhetoric, which he remained for forty years. He died Nov. 26, 1780. He distinguished himself greatly by his thorough investigations into the philological merits of his mother tongue, and by his labors on the Gothic version of Ulfilas, the results of which are left us in Scripta versionem Ulphilanam et lieng. Maeso-gothicam illustrentia, which were collected and edited by A. F. Bü sching (Berl. 1773, 4to). This collection (which is very rare, as only 131 copies were printed) contains,

1. Ulphilas illustratus, a series of critical observations on the readings of the Codex Argenteus, with a preface, in which he attempts to prove ‘ that the letters of the Codex were produced by an encaustic process, the surface of the parchment having been covered with wax, on which silver-leaf was laid, and the form of the letter stamped thereon with a hot iron;"

2. Fragmenta vers. Ulph., containing the portions of the Epistle to the Romans published by Knittel, with annotations;

"3. Dissertatio de originibuss Ling. Lat. et Gr. inter Mesogothos reperiundis;

4. De verbis Moesogoth; Analecta Ulphil., i, de Cod. Argent. et litt. Goth., 2, de nominibus subst. et adject. Maesogoth.;

5. De Ling. Cod. Arg.;

6. Specimen Gloss. Ulphil., cume praejationibus. An Appendix to the work contains tracts by other writers. He wrote also De usu LXX interpretum in N.T. (Upsal. 1730): — De usu accentuum Hebraeorum (ibid. 1733). See Kitto, Cyclopaedia Bib. Lit. 2, 377; Jocher, Gelehrt. Lex., Adelung's Add. 2, 2270 sq.