Hasse, Johann Gottfried

Hasse, Johann Gottfried a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Weimar in 1759. He studied at Jena, was in 1786 professor of Oriental languages at Konigsberg, in 1788 professor of theology, and died April 12, 1806. He published, Libri Quartz Regum Syroheptaplaris Specimen (Jena, 1782): — Salono's Weisheit ubersetzt nmit Anmerkungen (ibid. 1784): — Idiognomik Davids, etc. (ibid. eod): — Aussichten zu kuntigen Aufklarungen uber das Alte Testament (1785): — Das andere Buch der Maccabaier neu ubersetzt (1786): — Hebr. Sprachlehre (1786-87): — De Dialectis Linguae Syriacae (1787): — Lectiones Syro-Arabico- Samaritano Ethiopicae (1788): — Magazin fur die biblisch-orientalische Literatur (1788-89): — Christus ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος (ibid. 1790): — Praktisches Handbuch der aramaischen oder syrisch-samaritanischen Sprache (1791): — Augsustu Christi Nascituri Forsan non Ignarus (ibid. 1805). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:74, 115, 200, 232, 273, 277, 280, 423, 554, 555, 617; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:365 sq. (B.P.)