August Dillmann (1823-1894), German scholar

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August Dillmann (1823-1894) was a German Old Testament scholar and orientalist at the Universities of Tübingen (1851-54), Kiel (1854-1864), Giessen (1864-1869), and finally since 1869 in Berlin. After Hiob Ludolf he was the first to revive the study of Ethiopic in Germany, cataloging manuscripts in Paris, London and Oxford, making a crucial contributions to the rediscovery of OT Jewish pseudepigrapha, notably, the First Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees.

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