Wähner, Andreas Georg a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born Feb. 24, 1693, at Rhida. He studied at Helmstadt, especially Oriental languages, from 1710 to 1716; and, as the result of his studies, he published during that time three dissertations: De Mare Asphaltite: — De Regione Ophir: — and De Festo Encceniorum. In 1718 he was called, as professor of the Gymnasium, to Göttingen. When, in 1733, that institution was changed into a university, he was permitted to lecture there, and in 1735 he published his Hebrew Grammar, which is the more remarkable because being the first book which was published by that university. In the same city he studied tie Talmud and the Rabbinical writings, his instructor being a learned Jew by the name of Ginzburger. In 1738 he was advanced to be ordinary professor of Oriental languages. He died Feb. 2i, 1762. His most important work, which he published in two volumes, is his Antiquitates Hebraeorum de Israelitic cv Gentis Origine, Factis, Rebus Sacris, etc. (Gött. 1743), a very learned and instructive work, which may still be used with great advantage by the student. For his other writings, see Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 488 sq.; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:609 sq. (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