Nagel, Johann Andreas Michael a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 29, 1710, at Sulzbach, Bavaria. He studied at Altdorf. Jena, and Leipsic, commenced his academical career at Altdorf in 1737, was in 1740 professor, and died September 29, 1788. He wrote, De Modo Disputandi Doctoruns Judceorum, etc. (Altdorf, 1737): — De Lingua Aramecea (1739): — Conjugationes Aramaece, etc. (eod.): — De Lingua Orbis Babylonici (1740): — Observationes in Genesis 1:1 (1741): — In Genesis 1:2 (1742): — De Ludis Saecularibus Romanorum, etc. (1743): — De Tribus Codicibus Manuscriptis Ebraicis (1749): — De Stilo Mosis (1755): — Diss. ad Genes. 19:26 (eod.): — Ad Genes. 49:24 (1756): — Ad Amos 3:11 (1757): — Ad Malach. 2:15 sq. (1765): — Ad 1 Reg. 20:14 (1766): — Ad Nehem. 8:8 (1772), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (where 149 titles of his writings are given); Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:13 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:70, 96, 144. (B.P.)
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