DELITZSCH, FRIEDRICH, German orientalist, son of the preced ing, born at Erlangen on Sept. 3, 185o, and educated at Leipzig, be came professor of Semitic languages and Assyriology successively at Leipzig, Breslau and Berlin. His chief works are : Assyrische Lesestficke (1876) ; Wo lag das Paradies (1881) ; Assyrisches W orterbuch zur gesampten bisher verofentlichen Keilschri f tlitera tur 3 pts. (1887-9o) ; Assyrische Grammatik (1889, Eng. trans. 1889) ; Geschichte Babyloniens u. Assyriens (1891) ; Babel 11. Bibel (1902, Eng. trans. 1903) ; Grundzfige der Sumerischen Grammatik (1914) ; Die Welt des Islam (1915) and Die grosse Tduschung . . . Israels Eindringen in Kanaan (192o). Babel and Bibel, two lectures delivered before the German emperor, caused a great controversy because it denied the verbal inspiration of the Old Testament and contended that it was largely inspired by Baby lonian stories and that Semitic monotheism had gradually devel oped. While this attitude was not in itself new, the public letter of the emperor proclaiming the need of orthodoxy and of a realiza tion of the distinction between reason and revelation brought the position of scholars before the public, and thereby aroused violent discussions.