Staffelsteiner, Paul (originally Nathan Ahron), a convert from Judaism, was professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg in the 16th century. The program in which the rector of the university invited the students to attend his lectures is still preserved, and from the following passage we may judge as to the lectures Staffelsteiner was to deliver: "Idem hic auspicabitur eras ab enarratione celebris dicti quod de mundi duratione in domo Heliae sonuisse traditur. Grammatica deinceps tractabit compendia ac praecepta e scriptura petitis exemplis illustrabit idque curabit sedulo, ut ad phrasin, quae multos a philologicis lectionibus arcet, adsuefieri auditor possit vetustissimamque illam paulatim amare theologiam." Staffelsteiner published Tractat vom Messias (Heidelberg, 1560): — Adhortatio ad Judoeos ad Opinionem de Messia Curandi Diss. (ibid. 1560): — Refutatio Corruptionis Ps. 22, Judoeis Factoe (ibid. 1560): — Vortrag über die Wahrheit des Chistenthums, being an introduction to his lectures (ibid. 1551). See Kalkar, Israel und die Kirche, p. 88; Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 377; Geiger, Das Studium der hebr. Sprache in Deutschland, p. 90. (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