Hirzel, Ludwig

Hirzel, Ludwig son of Bernhard (q.v.), was born at Zurich, August 27, 1801, and died April 13, 1841, professor of theology. He is the author of, De Pentateuchi Versionis Syriacae quam Peschito Vocant Indole (Leipsic, 1825): — De Chaldaismi Biblici Origine et Auctoritate Critica (1830): — Das Buch Hiob erklart (1839; 3d. ed. by Dillmann, 1869). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:56, 124; Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. 1:402; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:562. (B.P.)