Carpzov, Johann Benedikt (3)

Carpzov, Johann Benedikt

third, a German Orientalist, son of the preceding, and father of Johann Benedikt fourth, was born at Leipsic, Nov. 21 1670. He studied at Leipsic, Jena, Altdorf, and Strasbursg; was made magister at Leipsic in 1696, preacher in 1703, and professor of Hebrew in 1715; and died there, Aug. 14,1733. He published a work of his father, Colloquia Rabbinicobiblicum (Leipsic, 1703): —also Christianco de Urim et Thummim Conjecturae: — De Sepultura Josephi Patriarchae, etc. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.