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Zorn, Peter

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a German theological writer, was born at Hamburg, May 22, 1682. In 1715 he was called as rector to Plon, in Holstein; in 1725 became professor of history, in 1729 that of Church history at the gymnasium in Stettin, and died at Thorn, January 23, 1746. He published, De Scholis Publicis quas Antiqui Judaei Prope Lacuum, Amn. et Fluviorum Crepidinibus, etc., Exstruxerunt (Acts 16:13) (Ploense, 1716): — De Epithalamiis sive Carminibus Veterum Hebraeorum Nuptialibus (Hamburg, s.a.): — De Antiquis AEnigmatibus in Coenis Nuptialibus Hebraeorum, Graecorum et Romanorum (Leipsic, 1724): — Historia Bibliorum ex Hebraeorum Diebus Festis et Jejuniis lllustrata, etc. (ibid. 1741): — Diss. de Baptismo Proselytor. Judaico Sacrament. V.T. juxta Lightfootum (ibid. 1703): — Hecataei Abderitae Eclogae (Altona, 1730): — Historia Fisci Judaici sub Imperio Veterum Romanorum (ibid. 1734). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:555; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:32, 140, 632, 899. (B.P.)