NORDHEIMER, rn.o., 1800-42; b. Memelsdorf, Germany, of Jewish par ents. Having acquired the rudiments of education at a Jewish school, he entered the gymnasium of Wh•zburg, to fit himself, by the study of theclasSies, theology, and philoso phy, for a Jewish public teacher. After studying two years at the gymnasium, he was transferred to the university, from which, in 1832; he went to the university of taking his degree of doctor of philosophy in 1834. Two American students who took pri vate lessons of him in 1832 having informed him that there were favorable openings in America, lie left his home in 1835, and soon after his arrival in New York was appointed professor of Arabic and other oriental languages and acting professor of Hebrew in the university of New York. Soon afterwards he was appointed instructor in the Union theological seminary. He was one of the most eminent Hebrew scholars of modern times. He was intimate with Dr. Addison Alexander, Dr. Robinson, and prof. Stuart. On his way to this country he began the preparation of a Hebrew gram mar on a philosophical basis.' In 18% he published the first volume, and in 1841 the second. Prof. Alexander, reviewing it, says, "This new work requires no painful
effort of memory to keep its parts in order; the perusal in it of the most thorny part of Hebrew grammar opens a vista superior in clearness, extent, and beauty to that exhib ited by any other writer. Nothing but the fear of being thought to deal in sweeping, panegyric prevents our speaking in the highest terms." Horne styles it " the most elab orate and philosophical Hebrew grammar in the English language." Besides this he published A Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture, or a Chrestomothy; The Philosophy of Ecclesiastes, being an Introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes, in the Biblical Repository. He contributed other valuable articles to the Biblical Repository. He left also the following works in manuscript: A Chaldee and Syriac Grammar, in German; Arabic Grammar, in German; A Larger Arabic Grammar, in English; A Translation and Ecposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes, in German; Hebrew Concordance, incomplete; Philological Memoranda; etc. Dr. Nordhehner continued through life in the Jewish faith.