Obj. ID: 40632  Miscellaneorum sacrorum libri duo, quibus accessit ejusdem exercitatio de cabbala judaica by Theodor Hackspan, Altdorf bei Nürnberg, 1660

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Protestant theologian and orientalist, born on November 8, 1607 in Weimar, † January 16, 1659. His father was saxony-weimarischer Gutsinspector. He first attended the school of his native city, and later high school Roleben, and moved in 1625 to study philosophy and oriental languages, the University of Jena, 1631 University of Altdorf. Then he turned to Helmstהdt, where he began the study of theology under the guidance of Georg Calixtus and Conr. Hornejus . In particular, the former became interested H. and pulled him into his familiar intercourse, also had its freer theological direction of a determining influence on the development of the student. In terms go again to Jena, H. 1636 received news of the death Schwenter's in Altdorf. He applied to his place and was also, though he did not have a degree, once elected there for a ProFezsor of the Hebrew language. This position he exchanged in 1654 with a full proFezsorship of theology at the same university, which he held until his death, struck badly in recent years of severe internal pain and gout. H. was a thorough and astute knowledge of the scriptures and next to Sal. Gla the most important Hebrew scholar of his time. He had thoroughly studied and verwerthet the knowledge gained from them for theological science and the rabbis. He was also well versed in Arabic and Syriac. As a theologian, he paid homage to the freer and more independent spirit which he owed the Jenaischen and helmet Municipal School and especially Calixtus, and went strictly in the Scriptures research into the grammatical and natural meaning of the words, though the very fact that he is too little to recipirten the text and the traditional interpretation of Scripture ribbon and even took a deliberate falsification of the Old Testament text by the Jews, he drew upon the harsh criticism of the orthodox school.