BUXTORF, JOHANN, JUN., son of the preced ing, and his successor in the Hebrew chair at Basle, was born 13th Aug. 1599 and died 17th Aug. 1664. He followed his father in his devotion to He brew studies, and occupied himself much in editing and extending his father's writings. His edition of the _Tiberias, published after his death in 1665, is to a great extent anew work. He was involved in a protracted controversy on the integrity of the Hebrew text, in connection with which he pub lished the following works :—De Litterarum Heb. gennina antiquitate, 1643; Tractatus de punctorunz origin, antiq. et author. opposites Arcano punt. revelato Lad. Capelli, Bas. 1648 ; Anticritica, sen vindiciu veritatis Heb. adv. Laid. Capelli Criticam quay: vacant sacram, quibus sacrosancta editionis Biblionznz hebraica authoritas integritas et sinceritas, et quamplurinza loca vindicantur simul etiam ex Elicantur el illustrantur, Bas. 1653. In this
controversy Buxtorf maintained against Capellus the divine authority of the entire Masoretic text, vowels as well as consonants, words as well as things. The feeling of the age went with him, and for long it was in many quarters held to be essential to orthodoxy to maintain his view, though it never received the general assent of scholars (See Walton, Pzvleg. III. ad Bibl. Polygl.) Be sides these publications, Buxtorf issued also Dis sertations Philol. Theol. Access. R. Is. Abarbanalis aliquot DzIrs. ex heb. in lat. ling versee, Bas. 1664 ; Exercitationes ad histor. arca ftoderis, :finis sacri, Urim et Thmunzim, manna, petra an desetto, ser petal's arei, Bas. 1659. He published also a translation of the Moreh Nevoehint of Maimonides, and edited the book Cosri in Hebrew, with a Latin translation, Bas. 1640.—W. L. A.