Dillmann

Dillmann, Christian Friedrich August, a great German Orientalist, born at Illingen, a village of Wurtemberg, in 1823. After studying at Tubingen under the celebrated Ewald, and after travelling in England and France, be occupied chairs of Oriental languages successively at Tubingen and Kiel, and in 1864 became professor of Old Testament exegesis at Giessen. He is a great authority on Ethiopian, a language that had been much neglected, and which he considers the fourth in importance among the Semitic dialects. He has written many works, the majority of them bearing upon Ethiopian.