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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 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 language
.
In 1652 he entered the service of the duke of 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 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
.
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 president of the collegium imperiale historicum
.
The See also: works of 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, 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 Dillmann throws doubt on the See also: story of Ludolf's intimacy with Gregorius
.
See C
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Juncker, Commentarius de vita et scriptis Jobi Ludolfi (Frankfort, 171o); L
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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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