Michaelis, Johann David, an Orientalist and Biblical scholar, born at Halle; was a man of vast learning; professor of Philosophy as well as of Oriental Languages at Göttingen; wrote an “Introduction to the New Testament,” and “Commentaries on the Legislation of Moses”; was one of the first to correlate the history of the Jews with that of the other Oriental nations of antiquity (1717‒1791).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Michael Angelo Buonarotti * Michaelmas