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date: 17 March 2025

Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (1786–1842), orientalist and biblical scholar. 

Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Author(s):
F. L. CrossF. L. Cross, E. A. LivingstoneE. A. Livingstone

From 1811 till his death he was professor of theology at Halle, where he concentrated his attention on problems of Semitic philology and became the most outstanding Hebraist of his generation. In ... ...

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