See also:LUDOLF (or LEUTHOLF), HIOB (1624-1704)
, See also:German orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Erfurt on the 15th of See also:June 1624
.
After studying See also:philology at the Erfurt See also:academy and at See also:Leiden, he travelled in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to increase his linguistic knowledge
.
While in See also:Italy he became acquainted with one Gregorius, an Abyssinian
See also:scholar, and acquired from him an intimate knowledge of the Ethiopian See also:language
.
In 1652 he entered the service of the See also:duke of See also:Saxe-See also:Gotha, in which he continued until 1678, when he retired to See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main
.
In 1683 he visited See also:England to promote a cherished See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for establishing See also:trade with See also:Abyssinia, but his efforts were unsuccessful, chiefly through the bigotry of the authorities of the Abyssinian 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
.
Returning to Frankfort in 1684, he gave himself wholly to See also:literary See also:work, which he continued almost to his See also:death on the 8th of See also:April 1704
.
In 1690 he was appointed See also:president of the collegium imperiale historicum
.
The See also:works of See also:Ludolf, who is said to have been acquainted with twenty-five See also:languages, include Sciagraphia historiae aethiopicae (See also:Jena, 1676); and the Historia aethiopica (Frankfort, 1681), which has been translated into See also:English, See also:French and Dutch, and which was supplemented by a Commentarius (1691) and by Appendices (1693—1694)
.
Among his other works are: Grammatica linguae amharicae (Frankfort, 1698) ; See also:Lexicon amharico-latinum (Frankfort, 1698) ; Lexicon aethiopico-latinum (Frankfort, 1699); and Grammatica aethiopica (See also:London, 1661, and Frankfort, 1702)
.
In his Grammatik der athiopischen Sprache (1857) See also:August See also:Dillmann throws doubt on the See also:story of Ludolf's intimacy with Gregorius
.
See C
.
Juncker, Commentarius de vita et scriptis Jobi Ludolfi (Frankfort, 171o); L
.
Diestel, Geschichte See also:des See also:alien Testaments in der christlichen Kirche (Jena, 1868) ; and J
.
Flemming, " Hiob Ludolf," in the Beitrage zur Assyriologie (See also:Leipzig, 189o—1891)
.
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