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Johann Benedict Carpzov II (24 April 1639 – 23 March 1699) was a German Christian theologian and 
He studied Hebrew under
Hebraist
A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...
. He was a member of the scholarly Carpzov Carpzov is the name of a family, many of whose members attained distinction in Saxony in the 17th and 18th centuries as jurists, theologians and statesmen.
Origins
They were said to be descended from a Spanish family named Carpezano, who were driv ...
family.
He studied Hebrew under Johannes Buxtorf II
Johannes Buxtorf the Younger, (13 August 1599 – 16 August 1664) was son of the scholar Johannes Buxtorf, and a Protestant Christian Hebraist.
Life
Buxtorf was born in Basel, where he also died. Before the age of thirteen he matriculated at ...
, in Basel. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages at Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
in 1668, and was pastor of St. Thomas' 1679-99, and professor of theology 1684-99.
He edited in 1674 Wilhelm Schickard
Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 – 24 October 1635) was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer (along with Max Caspar) of Johannes Kepler, claim ...
's ''Jus Regium Hebræorum'', and, later, the ''Prophetas minores Commentarius'' of Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius), John Lightfoot's ''Horæ Heb. et Talmudicæ'', Friedrich Lanckisch's ''Concordantiae Bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Graecae'', and in 1687 the ''Pugio fidei adversus Mauros et Iudaeos'' of Raimundus Marti. To the last-named work he prefixed his own ''Introductio in Theologiam Judaicam''.
Some dissertations by Carpzov were published (1699) by his brother Samuel Benedict Carpzov; and in 1703 appeared his ''Collegium Rabbinico-Biblicum in Libellum Ruth''.
References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpzov, Johann Benedict, II 1639 births 1699 deaths 17th-century German Protestant theologians German Protestant clergy Christian Hebraists German male non-fiction writers 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers