HERMANN VON DER

See also:

• HERMANN VON DER HARDT (166o-1746)
• HARDT, THE

HARDT (166o-1746)  , German historian and orientalist, was born at Melle, in Westphalia, on the 15th of November 1660 . He studied oriental languages in Jena and in Leipzig, and in 1690 he was called to the chair of oriental languages at Helmstedt . He resigned his position in 1727, but lived at Helmstedt until his death on the 28th of February 1746 . Among his numerous writings the following deserve mention: Autographa Lutheri aliorumque celebrium virorum, ab anno 1517 ad annum 1546, Reformationis aetatem et historiam egregie illustrantia (169o-1691); Magnum oecumenicum Constantiense concilium (1697—1700) Hebraeae linguae fundamenta (1694); Syriacae linguae fundamenta (1694); Elementa Chaldaica (1693); Historia litteraria reformationis (1717); Enigmata prisci orbis (1723) . Hardt left in manuscript a history of the Reformation which is preserved in the Helmstedt Juleum . See F . Lamey, Hermann von der Hardt in seinen Briefen (Karlsruhe, 1891) .