Trendelenburg, Johann Georg

Trendelenburg, Johann Georg a German professor of ancient languages, was born Feb. 22,1757. For a number of years he was professor of languages at the academic gymnasium in Dantzic, where he died March 11,1825. He published, Primi Libri Maccabaeorums Graeci, Textus cum Veissione Syriaca Collatio Instituta (reprinted in Eichhorn's Repertoium, 15:59): — Chrestomathia Flaviiana, sire Loci Illustres ex Flavio Josejpho Delecti et Aniadversionibus Illustrati (Lips. 1789): — Chrestomacthia Hexaplaris (ibid. 1794) — Commentatio in Veba Novissima Davidis 2 Samuel 23:1-7 (Gött. 1779): — Die ersten Azirnngsgründe der hebr. Sprache (Dantzic, 1784). See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 443; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Literatur., 2, 807. (B.P.)