PlüsChke, jOhann g

Plüschke, Johann G.

an eminent German Oriental scholar, was born Aug. 20, 1780, at Rohnstock, near Schweidnitz, in Silesia. He studied theology and philology, and for a number of years held the professorship of philology at Leipsic. In 1818 he was called as doctor and professor ordinarius of theology to Amsterdam, to take the presidency of the Lutheran seminary at Amsterdam, and died between 1837 and 1840. Pliischke wrote, De radicum linunae Hebraicae natura, comm. grammatica (Leips. 1817): — De Psalterii Syriaci Alediolanensis a Caujeftno Bugato editi peculiari indole ejusdemque usu critico in emendando textu Psalterii Grceci sept. interpretum (Bonn, 1835): — Lectiones Alexandrince et Hebraicce, sive de emendando textu Veteris Testanenti Greci LXX interpretum et inde llebraico (ibid. 1837): — De emendando Pentateucho Graeco LXX interpretum et inde lebraico addito codd. Holmesianorum recensione et textus Graeci denuo castigati specimine (ibid. 1837). See Fürst. Bibl. Jud. 3, 107; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handb. p. 111; Winer, Handb. der theolog. Lit. p. 57, 121, 711; Thiersch, De Pentateuchi versione Alexandrina, p. 23; Zuchold, Bibl. Theologica, 2, 1001 sq. (B. P.)