Georgi, Christian Sigmund

Georgi, Christian Sigmund a Lutheran theologian, was born at Luckau, July 20, 1701. He studied vat Wittenberg, and commenced his academical career in 1723, was professor of philosophy in 1736, professor of theology in 1743, and was honored with the doctorate of divinity in 1748. He died September 6, 1771, leaving De Chaldaeosyrismis, Rabbinismis et Persismis (Wittenberg, 1726): — De Ebraismis, Novi Test. (ibid. 1726-27): — De Dialecto Novi Testamenti (ibid. 1730): — De Idioticismis Novi Test. (ibid. eod.): — De Puritate Novi Test. (ibid. 1731): — De Latinismis Graecae Novi Foederis (ibid. 1732): — Vindiciae Novi Testamenti ab Ebraismis (eod.): — Hierocriticus Novi Testamenti (1733): — De סופרי ad Varios Vet. et Novi Test. Locos Illustrandos (1734), etc. For a full list of his writings, amounting to seventy-two, see Dbring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)