Woken, Franz a German doctor of theology and professor of Oriental languages, born at Ravin, in Pomerania, in 1685, was called to Wittenberg in 1727, where he died, 5 . 18,1734. He wrote, Diatribe de Magistris Collectionum (בעלי אסופות) (Wittenberg, 1727): — An Moses Genesin e Schedis Patriarcharum Collegerit (ibid. eod.): — Dissert. de Utilitate Novae Pentateuchi Samaritani Editionis (ibid. 1728): — Alloquium ad Eruditos de Utilitate Novae, quam Parat, Editionis Pentateuchi Samaritani (ibid. 1729): — Meletemata Antiquaria, etc. (ibid. 1730): — Commentatio Exegetico-critica in Canticum (ibid. 1729): — Diss. de Usu Fl. Joseph. in V. et V.T. (ibid. 1720): — Meditationes Privatae, etc. (Leipsic, 1716-18): — Adnotationes Exegeticae in Prophetiam Haggaei (ibid. 1719): —
Samaritani Eusebiani, Quatenus ad Vindicandum Textum Hebraeum Praecipue Faciunt (Wittenberg, 1731): — Pietas Critica, quae V. et N.T. Textum Origini, etc. (ibid. 1718-20, 2 parts):- Textus V. T. Originalis Ebr. ab Enallagis Liberatus (ibid. 1726). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:127, 190, 230, 279; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:527. (B.P.)
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