Otho, Julius Conrad

Otho, Julius Conrad (originally Naphtali Margalita), a distinguished German Orientalist, belonged to a very ancient Jewish family, distinguished for its great learning and Talmudic lore, of which five members have united with the Christian Church. Naphtali Margalita was born at Vienna Sept. 12 1562, and joined the Church in 1603 at Altona, where he was appointed professor of Oriental languages, and died at the same place in 1607. He wrote, Usus linguae Hebraicae, h. e. expositio mystica document. Hlebr. Vet. Test. (Nurnberg, 1604): — Grammatica Ebraica (ibid. 1605): - רָזִיָּא גּלֵא. ie. Occultorum detectio seu monstratio dogmatum, quae omnes Rabbini. recte sentientes ante et post Christi nativitatem de unitate essentiae divine Trinitate personarum, et de Messia posteritati reliquerunt, etc. (ibid. 1605; Stettin, 1613); a work consisting of extracts from the Talmud and the Sohar to prove the validity of the Christian doctrine: — Lexicon radicale s. thesaurus coronamn Sacrae Scroipturae complectens, in quo juxta ordinenz alphabeticum -ponuntur nomina, verba, serviles et radicales litere et voces inde derivatce (Nurnberg, 16.). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:60; Wolf, Bibl. Itebr. 1:480; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch, p. 105; Same, Catalogus Librorum Hebr. in Biblioth. Bodleiuna, p. 2080; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrtfen-Lexikon, 3:1142; Supplement by Rotermund, v. 1300; Fabricius, Delectus Argumentorum et syllabus scriptorum, etc. (Hamburg, 1725), p. 583 sq.; Loscher, De causis linguae Hebr. (Leips. 1706), p. 169; Delitzsch, Saat auf Hoffnung (Erlangen, 1869), 7:146 sq. (B. P.)