Triffechov, Adam

Triffechov, Adam a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born August 11, 1641, at Lubeck, studied at different universities, was in 1672 ecclesiastical counsellor at Gotha, in 1677 general superintendent, and died August 17, 1687. He published, Historia Chiliasmi: — De Impositione Manuum in Sacrificiis ex Hebraeorum nec non Christianorum Monumentis: — De Emphasibus Scripture Sacrae ad Ies. 1:1-6: — De Rechabitis ad Jeremiah 35: — De Angelis: — De Mose AEgyptiorum Osiride: — De Concursu Dei: — Historia Naturalismi a Prima sua Origine ad Nostra usque Tempora per suas Classes Deducta (edited and published by his son, Jena, 1700). See Moller, Cimbria Literata; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)