Groddeck, Benjamin
Groddeck, Benjamin
professor of Oriental languages at Dantzic, was born there in 1728, and died June 8, 1776. He wrote, De Necessaria Linguarum Arabicae et Hebraeae Connexione (Wittenberg, 1746): De Natura Dialectorum ad Linguam Hebraicam et Arabicam: Applicata (1747): De Vero Originumn Hebraearum fonte et Utilitate (eod.): De Linguae Hebraeaes Antiquitate (Dantzic, 1750): De Litteris Hebraicis (1751): De Sensu Scriptures Sacrae (eod.): De Punctis Hebraeorum (1753): De Via ad Notitiiam Interiorem Linguarum Orientalium Proesertim Hebraeaes (1757): De Vera Verborum 8 8Natura et Indole (1760): De Usu Versionum Graecarum Vet. Test. Hermeneutico et Critico (1763). See Meusel, Gelehrtes Deutschland; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, s.v.; Furst. Bibl. Jud. 1:344. (B.P.)