Johann Matthäus Hassencamp

Johann Matthäus Hassencamp (28 July 1743 – 6 October 1797) was a German Orientalist and Protestant theologian born in Marburg.

Afterwards, he continued his studies in France, Holland and England, followed by a return to Marburg, where in 1768 he received his habilitation.

Among his published works was a treatise on the Pentateuch, titled "Commentatio philologico-critica de Pentateucho LXX interpretum graeco non ex hebraeo sed samaritano textu converso",[1] and the autobiography of theologian Johann David Michaelis, "Lebensbeschreibung von ihm selbst abgefasst, mit Anmerkungen von Hassencamp" (Written biography of himself, with the notes of Hassencamp; 1793).

[2] From 1789 up until 1797, he was an editor of the influential weekly magazine "Annalen der neuesten theologischen Litteratur und Kirchengeschichte" (Annals of the Latest Theological Literature and Church History; afterwards continued by Ludwig Wachler).

[3] In the fields of mathematics and physics, he published a work on the history involving efforts to determine longitude, titled "Kurze Geschichte der Bemühungen die Meereslänge zu erfinden" (1769).