Hitzig, Ferdinand, a German Orientalist and biblical scholar, born in Baden; devoted himself to Old Testament studies; was professor of Theology first at Zurich and then at Heidelberg; his principal works bore on Old Testament exegesis (1807‒1875).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hittites * Hoadly, Benjamin