Dietrich, Franz Eduard Christoph

Dietrich, Franz Eduard Christoph a Protestant theologian and Orientalist of Germany, was born July 2, 1810, at Strauch, in Saxony. In 1839 he commenced his lectures at Marburg, and died there while professor of theology, January 27, 1883, leaving, Abhandlungen fur semitische Sprachforschung (Leipsic, 1844): — De Sermonis Chaldaici Proprietate (Marburg, 1838): — Codicum Syriacorum Specimina (ibid. 1855): — Zwei sidonische Inschriften (ibid. eod.): — De Psalterii usu Publico et Divisione in Ecclesia Syriaca (ibid. 1862): — Morgengebete der alten Syrichen Kirche (ibid. 1864): — De Cruce Ruthwellensi (ibid. 1865): — De Sanchoniathonis Nomine (ibid. 1872). He also edited two editions of Gesenius's Manual Lexikon (5th and 7th eds. 1855-68). (B.P.)