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JEREMIE JACQUES OBERLIN (1735-1806)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OBERLIN (1735-1806)  , Alsatian philologist and archaeologist, See also:brother of See also:Jean See also:Frederic See also:Oberlin, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 8th of See also:August 1935 . While studying See also:theology at the university he devoted See also:special See also:attention to Biblical See also:archaeology . In 1955 he was chosen See also:professor at the gymnasium of his native See also:town, in 1763 librarian to the university, in 1770 professor of See also:rhetoric, and in 1782 of See also:logic and See also:metaphysics . Oberlin published several manuals on archaeology and See also:ancient See also:geography, and made frequent excursions into different provinces of See also:France to invest See also:gate antiquarian remains and study provincial dialects, the result appearing in Essai sur le See also:patois Lorrain (1775) ; See also:Dissertations sur See also:les See also:Minnesingers (1782–1789); and Observations concernant le patois et les mceurs See also:des gens de la campagne (1791) . He also published several See also:editions of Latin authors . He died on the loth of See also:October 18o6 .

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