Dresde, Friedrich Wilhelm

Dresde, Friedrich Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Naumburg, March 4, 1740; studied at Leipsic; was in 1772 appointed professor of Oriental languages at Wittenberg, and in 1778 professor of theology there; and died March 10, 1805, leaving, De Immortalitate Animae, Patriarchis non Ignota (Leipsic, 1764): — De Anno Judaico (ibid. 1766): — Votum Jephthae (ibid. 1767): — Triga Commentationum Acadd. Critic. (ibid. 1773): — In Diversitatem Lectionis Codicis Hebraei, etc. (ibid. 1776): — In Castiganda Lectione Massoretica (ibid. 1778): — Elementa Sermonis Ebraici (ibid. 1779, 1790): — De Usu Pentateuchi Samarituni (ibid. 1783): — Le Libro Foderis (1790-92, 7 parts): — De Vera vi עולם (ibid. 1793, 1794): — De Notione Spiritus S. in Codice Hebraico (ibid. 1797). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:345 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:129, 226, 270, 399, 436; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:212. (B.P.)