JOHANN GOTTLOB CARPZOV (1679-1767), grandson of Johann Benedikt, was born at Dresden in 1679. He was educated at Wit tenberg, Leipzig, and Altdorf, became a learned theologian, and in 1719 was appointed professor of oriental languages at Leipzig. In 1730 he was made superintendent and first pastor at Lubeck. His most important works were the Introductio in libros canonicos bibliorum Veteris Testamenti (1721), Critica sacra V. T. (1728), and Apparatus Historico-criticus Antiquitatum V. Test. (1748). He died at Lubeck on April 7, 1767.