DELITZSCH, FRANZ (1813-189o), German Lutheran theologian, Hebrew scholar and orientalist, was born at Leipzig on Feb. 23, 1813. He studied in the university of his native town, becoming in 185o professor of theology at Erlangen, and in 1867 at Leipzig, where he died on March 4, 189o. Delitzsch was a strict Lutheran. With a view to the conversion of the Jews he edited the periodical Saat auf Ho ff nung from 1863, revived the "Institutum Judaicum" in 188o, founded a Jewish missionary college, and translated the New Testament into Hebrew. He acquired such a mastery of post-biblical, rabbinic and talmudic literature that he has been called the "Christian Talmudist." Though never an ad vanced critic, his article on Daniel in Herzog's Realencyklopddie (end ed.), his New Commentary on Genesis and the fourth edition of his Isaiah show that his sympathy with higher criticism in creased-so much so that Prof. Cheyne has included him among its founders.