Winkler, Johann Priedrich (1)

father of Johann Dietrich, was born December 13, 1679, at Wertheim, in Franconia. He studied at Greifswalde, and, after completing his course, travelled extensively through Holland and England. With the large material which he had collected in England he went to Frankfort, with the view of preparing a new edition of the Ethiopic grammar, published by Ludolph, his former teacher, in 1702. In 1704 he accepted a call to Hamburg as professor of Oriental languages, and in 1712 was made first pastor of St. Nicolai. He died October 24, 1738. Besides his Ethiopic grammar, which he edited in a second edition, he published a number of sermons, for which see Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:742. (B.P.)