Iken, Konrad

Iken, Konrad a German Protestant theologian and Hebraist, born at Bremen Dec. 25, 1689, was professor of theology at the gymnasium of that city, and pastor of one of the Reformed churches. He died June 30, 1753. Iken wrote, Antiquitates Hebraicae (Brem. 1730, 4to, 5th ed., annotated by J. H. Schacht, 1810, 8vo) Thesaurus Nov. Theolog. — Philol. Dissertationum, exegeticarum ex Musceo Th. Ifascei et Conrad. Ikenii (Levden, 1732, 2 vols. fol.): — De tempore celebratce ultinmae Caenae paschalis Christi (Bremen, 173.5 and 1739, 8vo); this work and the following are directed against G. F. Gude (q.v.):--Dissertatio quae contra Gudium demonstratur Coenam Christi σταυρώσιμον vere paschalem fuisse (Bremen, 1742, 8vo): — Tractatus Talmudicus de cultu quotidiano Templi, quem versione Latina donatum et notis illustratume eruditorun examini subjicit Conrad. Ikenius (Bremen, 1736, 4to): — Symbolce litterarice ad incrementum scientiarum omnis yeneris, a variis amicis collatcer Bremen, 1744-49, 3 vols. 8vo):--Harmonia historiceper-pessionum J. Christi (Bremen, 1743, 4to; 2nd ed. Utrecht, ,758.4to) —Dissertationes philol. — theolog. in diversa sac. cod. utriusque instrunentalia loca (Leyden, 1749, 4to; 2nd ed. augmented, pub. by J. H. Shacht, Utrecht, 1770, 4to): — De Institutis et Caerimoniis Legis allosaicce ante Mosen (Bremen, 1752, 2 parts, 4to). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gin. 25, 8 sq.; Kitto, Cyclop. Bib. Lit. 2, 377. (J.N.P.)