HARDT, HERMANN VON DKR, a learned theo logian and Orientalist, was born at Melle, in West phalia, in the duchy of Osnabruck, 15th November 1660. After receiving his early education at Her fort and Osnabriick, he repaired to Koburg in his i7th year, and thence to the University of Jena, where he devoted himself to the study of theology and the Oriental languages. He then spent a year at Hamburg under the learned Edzard, and returned to Jena x681, where, after a time, he be gan to give private lectures. In 1686 he repaired to Leipzig and commenced as a privat-docent. In z690 he became ordinary professor of Oriental lan guages at Helmstadt. Here he led a life of un wearied literary activity, lecturing on the Oriental torirmes, the exegesis of the O. and N. T., Hebrew and'ecclesiastical antiquities, Biblical science, etc. He died at the age of 86, in 1746, 28th February. He was a very learned man, but full of pamdoxes, eager after new views, rash, and peculiar. His
writings are numerous, exceeding. 3oo, and of a miscellaneous nature, gmmmatical, exegetical, and historical. The last are the most valuable to us. Those relating to Biblical literature are, Epheme rides Philologica quibus difficiliora quadam loca Pentateuchi ad fiebraicorum fontium tenorem ex Pikala, cum notis et ePistolis Pro uberiore commen tatione, 1693, 1696, 1703 ; Brevia atque solida Hebraa lingua fundamenta, 1694 and 1739 ; Ele menta Chaldaica, 1693, etc. ; Brevia atque solida S),riaca lingua fundamenta, 1694, etc. ; Hosea! illustratus Chaldaica yimathanis versione _Altai°. gicis celebrium rabbinorum Raschi, Aben Esra et Kinzchi comp:el:tar:1s, 1702, 1775 ; Cornmentarii lingua Hebrace ex Gracia apologia, 1727 ; Evan gelica rei integritas in negotio yona quatzior libris a'eclaratce, 1719 ; tEnigmata prkci orbis, 1723 fol.; MMUS Pti7MIS yobum, etc., 1728 fol.—S. D.