Salomo Glassius

Here, as a student of theology under Johann Gerhard, he directed his attention especially to Hebrew and the cognate dialects.

Later, at the earnest invitation of Duke Ernest the Pious, he relocated in 1640 to Gotha as court preacher and general superintendent in the execution of important reforms which had been initiated in the ecclesiastical and educational establishments of the Duchy.

[3] His principal work, Philologia sacra (1623), marked the transition from the earlier views on questions of biblical criticism to those of the school of Spener.

It was more than once reprinted during his lifetime, and appeared in a new and revised form, edited by J.

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