JABLONSKI, DANIEL ERNST, born 1660, at Nassenhuben near Danzig, son of the preacher Figulus, who, a native of Jablunka, a small place in Silesia, had adopted the surname of Jablonski. Having acquired his first instruction at the Gym nasium of Lissa (in Prussian Poland), the subject of our notice went to the university of Frankfon on-the-Oder, where he applied himself to literature and philosophy as well as to theology and the Oriental languages. In 1668 he set out for a learned tour to the universities and libraries of Holland and England, and remained for a con siderable time at Oxford. At his return in 1683 he was appointed preacher at Magdeburg, which place he left two years later in order to assume the rectorship of the Gymnasium at Lissa. In 16go he was made court preacher at Konigsberg, and in 1693 his fame procured him the place of preacher to the king at Berlin. Many were the honourable offices further entrusted to his care. Thus, in 1718 he was made a member of the Consistory, in 172g a church-councillor, and in 1733 he was elected president of the Royal Academy of Siences at Berlin. At the instance of Queen Anne the honor
ary degree of D.D. had, as early as 17°6, been bestowed upon him. He died at the age of 81 years, in 1741. His chief work is the edition of the Hebrew Bible, under the title Biblia Hcbraica, CUM notis Hebraicis, the first edition of which ap peared in Berlin ifigg in 2 vols. 4to, followed by a second in 1712, 12mo. Most of his other writings refer chiefly to the state of the churth in Poland ; such as, yin- et libertates dissendentiuno in regno Polonie o ; Das betrfibte Thorn ; Historia consensus Sandontiriensis, etc. He also translated several theological works into Latin ; e.g., Stultitia et ir rationabilitas Atheism/ ex Anslico Richard/ Bentleii, /aline versa ; Gilbert/ Burnet expsitio articuli xvii. Ecclesice Auglicanto de pra,destinatione et gratia, latine versa, etc. Many of his sennons have been printed. A not inconsiderable number of his writings, chiefly referring to the union of all the Protestant churches—an object which he had much at heart—are still extant in manuscript.—E. D.