DILLMANN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1823-1894), German orientalist and biblical scholar, was born at Illingen on April 25, 1823. In 1853 he became professor extra ordinarius (at Tubingen), and subsequently professor of philos ophy at Kiel (1854), of theology at Giessen (1864) and Berlin (1869). He died on July 4, 1894. Dillmann's chief works are the Book of Enoch in Ethiopian (1851; German, 1853) ; the first part of the Ethiopic bible, Octateuchus Aethiopicus Grammatik der iithiopischen Sprache (1857 ; Eng. trans., 1907) ; the Book of Jubilee (1859) ; another part of the Ethiopic bible, Libri Regum (1861 and 1871) ; Lexicon linguae aethiopicae (1865) ; Chrestomathia aethiopica (1866). His Commentar zum Hiob (1869) stamped him as one of the foremost Old Testament exegetes. His renown as a theologian was mainly founded by the series of commentaries on other Old Testament books including Genesis; Exodus and Leviticus; Numeri, Deuteronomium and Josua, and Jesaja. In 1877 he published the Ascension of Isaiah in Ethiopian and Latin, and in 1895 Vorlesungen Tuber Theologie des Alten Testamentes appeared.
See W. Baudissin, A. Dillmann (Leipzig, 1895).