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  Biblia Hebraica Manualia, Amsterdam, 1753

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Hebrew Old Testament with an essay on pronunciation and short dictionary of biblical terms by Johannes Simonis. First printed in Amsterdam in 1752. Preface by Simonis. Text in Hebrew and Latin. With the very rare two fold out pages with illustrations.
Johann Simonis was the son of a fellow countryman had received at the village school of his birthplace, the first training. He attended school in Schmalkalden city, where he developed an interest in the ancient languages. 1718 enrolled at the University of Halle , secured his living as a private tutor, and devoted himself to the study of theology. Above all, the education of looked Johann Heinrich Michaelis in Arabic and Christian Benedict Michaelis in the Ethiopian to its development.
1721 he took on the reformed school in Halle a position as adjunct of Subrektors , 1723 was even Subrektor so took over the inspection of Konviktoriums 1739 and was deputy head of the establishment. During that time he had made himself a name by wrote pamphlets which deal chiefly with oriental language research. For this purpose he had used the public and private libraries, particularly the book collection of Halle orphanage. 1744, he took over the ordinary proFezsor of church history and antiquities at the University of Halle. On a trip to Hoyersdorf which he had made for Christmas 1767 in very cold weather, a violent fever was in it triggers what he died.
His lectures included the Ecclesiastical History of the Old and New Testament, Hebrew, Greek and Roman History, the declaration of Homer, the Psalms, combined with grammatical classes, especially in the Arab and Samaritan. His main fame as a writer is based upon. his oriental language research. Best known Simonis was carried out in 1756 to be given in Latin, Hebrew and Chaldean Lexicon, which launched repeatedly, and was last published in 1793

Editor: Johann Simonis, 1698 - 1768

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