Verschuir, Johann Heinrich

Verschuir, Johann Heinrich a Protestant theologian of Germany, and professor of Oriental languages at Franeker, who died May 20, 1803, is the author of, Dissertatio de Paronomasia Orientalibus multum Adamata, quce est. Octava in ejusdem Dissertationibus Philologico-exegeticis (Franeker, 1773 ): — Dissertatio Critica, qua Lectio Codicis Hebraei in Loco Celebri Deuteronomy 27:4 Defenditur, et Lectio Sanzaritani Textus tanquam Spuria Rejicitllu (ibid. 1767): — Dissertationes Philologico-exegeticae (ibid. 1773). See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 475; Steinschneider, Biliographisches Handb. s.v.; Winer, Handb. der theol. Literatur, 1, 221. (B. P.)