See also:

• LUDOLF (or LEUTHOLF), HIOB (1624-1704)

LUDOLF (or LEUTHOLF), HIOB (1624-1704)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German orientalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ERFURT

Erfurt on the 15th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1624 . After studying See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology at the Erfurt See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy and at See also:

• LEIDEN

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
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy he became acquainted with one Gregorius, an Abyssinian See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, and acquired from him an intimate knowledge of the Ethiopian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language . In 1652 he entered the service of the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1816-1887)
• SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE (1696-1750)

Saxe-See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha, in which he continued until 1678, when he retired to See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main . In 1683 he visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

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 (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade with See also:

• ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

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

literary See also:

• WORK

work, which he continued almost to his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 8th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1704 . In 1690 he was appointed See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the collegium imperiale historicum . The See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• LUDOLF (or LEUTHOLF), HIOB (1624-1704)

Ludolf, who is said to have been acquainted with twenty-five See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, include Sciagraphia historiae aethiopicae (See also:

• JENA

Jena, 1676); and the Historia aethiopica (Frankfort, 1681), which has been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English, See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

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

Lexicon amharico-latinum (Frankfort, 1698) ; Lexicon aethiopico-latinum (Frankfort, 1699); and Grammatica aethiopica (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1661, and Frankfort, 1702) . In his Grammatik der athiopischen Sprache (1857) See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August See also:

• DILLMANN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1823-1894)

Dillmann throws doubt on the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

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

des See also:

• ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

alien Testaments in der christlichen Kirche (Jena, 1868) ; and J . Flemming, " Hiob Ludolf," in the Beitrage zur Assyriologie (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 189o—1891) .