Johann Matthäus Hassencamp (28 July 1743 – 6 October 1797) was a German Orientalist and Protestant theologian born in Marburg. He studied philology,

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, theology and

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at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen. Afterwards, he continued his studies in France, Holland and England, followed by a return to Marburg, where in 1768 he received his habilitation. Later, he became a professor of Oriental languages and

at the University in Rinteln, where in 1777 he was given additional responsibilities as head of the university library. Among his published works was a treatise on the Pentateuch, titled "''Commentatio philologico-critica de Pentateucho LXX interpretum graeco non ex hebraeo sed samaritano textu converso''", and the

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of theologian Johann David Michaelis, "''Lebensbeschreibung von ihm selbst abgefasst, mit Anmerkungen von Hassencamp''" (Written biography of himself, with the notes of Hassencamp; 1793). From 1789 up until 1797, he was an editor of the influential weekly magazine "''Annalen der neuesten theologischen Litteratur und Kirchengeschichte''" (Annals of the Latest Theological Literature and Church History; afterwards continued by Ludwig Wachler).OCLC WorldCat
Annalen der neuesten theologischen Litteratur und Kirchengeschichte In the fields of mathematics and physics, he published a work on the history involving efforts to determine longitude, titled "''Kurze Geschichte der Bemühungen die Meereslänge zu erfinden''" (1769).

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