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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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JEREMIE JACQUES

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

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