, a celebrated Hebrew and Greek professor in the university of Amsterdam,
, a celebrated Hebrew and
Greek professor in the university of Amsterdam, is most
known for his edition of the Mischna of the Jews, with
notes, and a Latin version, which he began to publish in
1698, and completed in 1703, in 3 vols. folio. It contains
also the commentaries of the Rabbins, Maimonides, and
Bartenora. The period at which he flourished is ascertained by this publication; but, in the books which we have
been able to consult, we do not find any account of the
time when he was born or died. The latter event must
have, however, been posterior to 1713, when he published
a learned work in Latin, “in which the passages of the
Old Testament, quoted in the New, are vindicated and reconciled, according to the forms of quotation, and the several ways of interpreting the scripture, used by the ancient Hebrew Theologers,
” Amst. 4to.