Olshausen, Justus a famous German Orientalist, brother of Hermann, was born May 9,1800, at Hohenfelde, Holstein, and studied at Kiel, Berlin, and Paris. In 1823 he was professor at Kiel, and in 1845 member of the Danish Academy of Sciences. Four years after Holstein was annexed by Denmark, in 1848, Olshausen was deposed of his professorship. He was appointed, in 1853, head-librarian and professor of Oriental languages at Konigsberg; in 1858 he was called to a position in the ministry for education at Berlin, from which he retired in 1874. Olshausen died Dec. 28, 1882. Besides his contributions to the monthly reports of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, Olshausen published, Emendationen zum Alten Testament (Kiel, 1826): Zur Topographie des alten Jerusalem (1833): — Erklarung der Psalmen (Leipsic, 1853): — Lehrbuch der Hebr. Sprache (Brunswick, 1861): — Die Pehlewi-Legenden auf den Miinzen der letzten Sassaniden (Leipsic, 1843): — Ueber den Charakter der in den assyrischen Keilinschriften erhaltenen semitischen Sprache (Berlin, 1866). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:98, 151, 520; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:47, (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More