Dillmann, a great German Orientalist, born at Illingen, a village of Würtemberg; studied under Ewald at Tübingen; became professor at Kiel, at Giessen, and finally at Berlin; as professor of Old Testament exegesis made a special study of the Ethiopic languages, and is the great authority in their regard; wrote a grammar and a lexicon of these, as well as works on theology; (b. 1823).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth * Dillon