Kocher, Hermann Friedrich

Kocher, Hermann Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1747 at Osnabruck, and died April 2, 1792. He is the author of, Nova Bibliotheca Hebraica (Jena, 1783-84, 2 volumes): — Versuch einer Erklarung der Geschichte Saul's mit der Betrugerin zue Endor (Gera, 1780): — Specimen Observationum Philologicarum in 1 Samuel 2 (Jena, 1772): — Comm. Sistens Explicationemn Vocum ויאמר et ויקרא Genesis 1:3, 5, de Deo Usurpatorum (1778): — Comm. ad Genesis 2:18-20, de Vocatis ab Adamo Animantibus (1779): — Stricturarums Antimasorethicarum in

Kirjan et Chetib. ad Librum, Judicum Specimen (1780). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:194 , Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:69. (B.P.)