August Dillmann (1823-1894), German scholar
August Dillmann (1823-1894) was a German scholar.
Biography
German orientalist and biblical scholar. Revived the study of Ethiopic, cataloging mss. in Paris, London and Oxford. Professor at Tübingen, Kiel, Giessen, and Berlin. Gave crucial contribution to the rediscovery of Jewish pseudepigrapha.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Liber Henoch aethiopice (Leipzig 1851)
- Das Buch Henoch übersetzt und erklärt (Leipzig 1853)
- Mashafa kufale sive Liber Jubilaeorum... aethiopice (Kiel 1859)