JOHANN See also:

• JAHN, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1778-1852)
• JOHANN JAHN (1750—1816)
• JAHN, OTTO (1813—1869)

JAHN (1750—1816)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Orientalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Tasswitz, See also:

• MORAVIA (Ger., Ma/wen; Czech, Morava)

Moravia, on the 18th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1750 . He studied See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• OLMUTZ (Czech; Olomouc or Holomauc)

Olmutz, and in 1772 began his theological studies at the Premonstratensian See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent of Bruck, near See also:

• ZNAIM (Czech Znojmo)

Znaim . Having been ordained in 1775, he for a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time held a cure at Mislitz, but was soon recalled to Bruck as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages and Biblical See also:

• HERMENEUTICS (Gr. Epµ-qvevrtKri, sc. 7E)(141, Lat. ars hermeneutica, from Epianvevety, to interpret, from Hermes, the messenger of the gods)

hermeneutics . On the suppression of the convent by See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph II. in 1784, See also:

• JAHN, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG (1778-1852)
• JAHN, JOHANN (1750—1816)
• JAHN, OTTO (1813—1869)

Jahn took up similar See also:

• WORK

work at Olmutz, and in 1789 he was transferred to See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna as professor of Oriental languages, biblical See also:

• ARCHAEOLOGY (from Gr. &pxa1a, ancient things, and Xoyos, theory or science)

archaeology and dogmatics . In 1792 he published his Einleitung ins Alte Testament (2 vols.), which soon brought him into trouble; the See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal-See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of Vienna laid a complaint against him for having departed from the traditional teaching of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church, e.g. by asserting See also:

• JOB

Job, See also:

• JONAH
• JONAH, RABBI (ABULWALID MERWAN IBN JANAH, also R. MARINUS) (c. 996-c. 1050)

Jonah, See also:

• TOBIT, THE BOOK OF

Tobit and See also:

• JUDITH, THE BOOK OF

Judith to be didactic poems, and the cases of demoniacal See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession in the New Testament to be cases of dangerous disease . An ecclesiastical See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission reported that the views themselves were not necessarily heretical, but that Jahn had erred in showing too little See also:

• CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration for the views of German See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic theologians in coming into conflict with his See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop, and in raising difficult problems by which the unlearned might be led astray . He was accordingly advised to modify his expressions in future . Although he appears honestly to have accepted this See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment, the hostility of his opponents did not cease until at last (18o6) he was compelled to accept a canonry at St See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen's, Vienna, which involved the resignation of his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair . This step had been preceded by the condemnation of his Introductio in libros sacros veteris foederis in compendium redacta, published in 1804, and also of his Archaeologia biblica in compendium redacta (18o5) . The only work of importance, outside the region of See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, afterwards published by him, was the Enchiridion Hermeneuticae (1812) . He died on the 16th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1816 . Besides the See also:

• WORKS

works already mentioned, he published Hebrdische Sprachlehre See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Anfanger (1792) ; Aramaische od .

Chaldaische u . SyrischeSprachlehre far Anf anger ( 1 793) ; ArabischeSprachlehre( 1796) ; Elementarbuch der hebr . Sprache (1799); Chaldaische Chrestomathie (1800); Arabische Chrestomathie (1802); See also:

• LEXICON

Lexicon arabico-latinum chrestomathiae accommodatum (1802); an edition of the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible (18o6) ; Grammatica linguae hebraicae (18o9); a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical commentary on the Messianic passages of the Old Testament (Vaticinia prophetarum de Jesu Messia, 1815) . In 1821 a collection of Nachtrage appeared, containing six See also:

• DISSERTATIONS

dissertations on Biblical subjects . The See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Archaeologia by T . C . Upham (184o) has passed through several See also:

• EDITIONS

editions .