Martin Friedrich Pitiscus
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Martin Friedrich Pitiscus [1]
a Lutheran theologian. of Germany, was born at Hamburg in 1721. In 1756 he was preacher at his birthplace, in 1768 professor of Oriental languages, and died November 13, 1794. He wrote, Versuch von der Religion der Starmmelten des menschlichen Geschlechts (Hamburg, 1768): — Eximium Divinae Sapientia Specimen (1763): — Ueber den Kanon der Bucher des Altens Testaments (1776): — Zur Beurtheilung der von Herrn Hofrath Lessing herausgegebenen Fragmente eines Ungenannten von Duldung der Deisten (1779). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:106. (B.P.)
