Ludovici, Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Landshut, Silesia, in 1663. He studied at Breslau and Leipsic, commenced his academical career in 1687, was professor of Oriental languages in 1699, doctor of theology in 1724, and died at Leipsic, January 15, 1732. He wrote, Isagoge in Accentuationem Hebraicam: — Hebraismus, Chaldaismus, TargumicoTalmudico-Rabbinicus et Syriasmus ad Harmoniam et Compendium Redacti: — Diss. V in Rabbi Levi ben Gerson Commentarium Rabbinicum in Hiobum: — Schediasma de Autoribus, qui de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Egerunt: Historia Concili Niceni. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:531, 663; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. Ludowig, 2:274. (B.P.)
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