Johann Andreas Eisenmenger [SEP] place of death
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger
Johann Andreas Eisenmenger (1654 in Mannheim – December 20, 1704 in Heidelberg) was a German Orientalist from the Electorate of the Palatinate, now best known as the author of "Entdecktes Judenthum" ("Judaism Unmasked").
Studies of rabbinical literature.
The son of an official in the service of the Elector of the Palatinate Charles I Louis (who had, in 1673, offered Spinoza a chair in philosophy at Heidelberg), Eisenmenger received a good education, despite the early loss of
, Dresden, 1893.
Further works.
Eisenmenger edited with Johannes Leusden the unvocalized Hebrew Bible, Amsterdam, 1694, and wrote a "Lexicon Orientale Harmonicum", which to this day has not been published.
References.
- Sources
- Zvi Avneri, "Eisenmenger, Johann Andreas," "Encyclopaedia Judaica", 2nd ed. (2007)
Bibliography.
- Eisenmenger, Johann Andreas. "Entdecktes Judenthum", 1711, in German, online. English version (abridged) translated by