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    title of u Neue Orientalische , " &c . Professor T ) r chsen , ofGottingen , was joint editor with Michael is of . the 2 d part . An article in this work engaged Michaelis in a dispute with Dr . Kennicott . He had procured for Kennicott the collation of the valuable Cassel

    MS . and had excited a great en . thusiasm for collation among his pupils , and had been on the most friendly terms with him while the work was going forward . When the first volume was published , in

    1776 , Michael is reviewed it in his Bibliothek , and expressed himself disappointed by it . Kennicott replied in an angry manner , and their friendship ceased . ^ The con * tinental critics speak in general

    with little respect of Kennrcott ' s talents . He certainly wanted the oriental learning which some of them possessed , and they allege that he was but moderately skilled in Hebrew . It is admitted on all

    hands , that his collations have produced much less benefit to sacred criticism than was expected from them , and perhaps these critics unjustly attributed to him a disappointment which arose from exaggerated ideas of the value of the Masoretic MSS .

    Michaelis published at intervals from 1784 to his death , his " Suppiementa Lexicis Hebraicis , " in 6 volumes 4 to . This contains the result of 40 years study of the Bible and the eastern languages , and is perhaps , on the whole , his

    greatest work . He also reprinted Castel ' s S t riae Lexicon from his Heptaglot with notes and additions of his own , in 1787- ^ -1788 . These works , together with his translation , of which we have already spoken , chiefly occupied him till his death . We have

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    omitted mentioning many of his smaller publications , as we intend to give a complete list of them hereafter .

    During the greater part of the time from his settlement at Gottingen , Michaelis was , engaged three or four hours a day as a public lecturer . He was professor of philosophy , but was most celebrated as a lecturer in theology and teacher of the oriental Ian .

    guages . He had large classes , in which were found students from all parts of Europe . Besides these employments , he superintended the Reviews , or ' ^ Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen , " as long as he continued connected with the

    Royal Society . Nor was his time wholly occupied with his literary engagements , various as they were . His civil avocations were nume * rous ; he was a member of the Hanoverian Council of State , and

    for a long time enjoyed the con . fidence of Munchausen , the prime Minister . He preached several times at Halle , and constantly in London , but never at GSttingen .

    He refused the * pepfessorship of theology , partly because he scrupled to sign the Lutheran confessions , although attached in ge * neral to the doctrines of that

    church . It is hardly necessary to say that a man of such extensive and varied knowledge was a very interesting companion . He ' possessed great vivacity , and a con *

    siderable share of wit , which he was rather too studious of display « ing . He does not appear , however , to have been an amiable man . He had a propensity to satire , which seldom accompanies

    an affectionate temper . He was accused of being fond of money ;

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    Sketch of the Life of Michaelis . 7

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/7/