Georg Otho (25 July 1634 – 28 May 1713) was a German
orientalist, who was born at
Sattenhausen
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, near Cassel. He became professor and librarian at the
University of Marburg, and died in that city. Besides a large number of academical discourses, and Latin essays on various points of philosophy and of Biblical
exegesis, he wrote, ''Oratio funebris in obitum Justi Jungmannii'' (Cassel, 1668, 4to): ''De accentuatione textus Hebraici'' (Marburg, 1698, 4to): ''Synopsis institutionum Samaritanarum, Rabbinicarum, Arabicarum, Ethiopicarum, et Persicarum, ex. optimis autoribus excerpta'' Francf. 1701, 8vo). Otho, in his grammars, adopted the plan and system of
James Alting; they were therefore looked upon as a continuation of Alting's works, and reprinted with the latter's grammars in 1717 and 1730: ''Fundamenta punctuationis linguae sancte,'' and ''Institutiones Chald. et Syr.; Palestra linguarum Orientalium'' (ibid. 1702, 4to), destined to facilitate the comparative study of Oriental languages. It contains the first four chapters of
Genesis
Genesis may refer to:
Bible
* Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind
* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...
, in the
Hebrew text, accompanied by the
Latin version of
Arius Montanus
Benito Arias Montano (or Benedictus Arias Montanus; 1527–1598) was a Spanish orientalist and polymath that was active mostly in Spain. He was also editor of the ''Antwerp Polyglot''. He reached the high rank of Royal Chaplain to King Philip II o ...
, in the
Targums of
Onkelos, of
Jonathan
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*Jonathan (name), a masculine given name
Media
* ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
* ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
, and of
Jerusalem, and the
Syriac,
Samaritan,
Arabic,
Ethiopian, and
Persian translations, each with a literal Latin translation. It gives also all that part of both the smaller and the larger
Masorah which relates to these four chapters, and the notes of R. Solomon,
Aben-Ezra, etc. The whole is preceded by a model of parsing in each of these languages, and followed by glossaries for all the words contained in the book: ''Virga Aharonis polyglottos'' (Marb. 1692, 4to); a work of the same kind as the preceding, more elaborate, but less extensive; it embraces only the first eleven verses of Numbers 17. A letter of Otho is inserted in Lacroze, ''Thesaurus epistol,'' 1:311. See Jocher, ''Allg. Gel.-Lex.,'' Supplement; Hoefer, ''Nouv. Biog. Generale,'' 38:929.
References
1634 births
1713 deaths
German librarians
Academic staff of the University of Marburg
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