NORDHEIMER, Isaac, was born of Jewish parents, in 1809, at Memelsdorf, a village not far from Erlangen. He received the rudiments of his education at a Jewish school of his native place, and having acquired that proficiency in Jewish learning which fitted him to become a rabbi, he, in 1828, entered himself at the Gymnasium of Wiirzburg, to acquire a knowledge of classical literature, theology, and philosophy, in accordance with the demands made in the present day of a Jewish public teacher. After remaining two years in the gymnasium, he was transferred (1830) to the University of Wiirzburg, which he left in 1832, and went to complete his studies at the metro politan university at Munich, where he took his degree as Doctor of Philosophy in the autumn of 1834, and afterwards sustained, pro forma, the public examination required of Jewish theologians. Through the persuasion of two American pupils, who took private lessons of him in 1832, Nordheimer left his home in 18s5 for America, and arrived in New York in the summer of the same year. He soon received from the university of that city the nominal appointment of professor of Arabic and other Oriental languages, and acting professor of Hebrew, and at once began his career as author.
He wrote (I.) A Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language, vol. i,, New York 1838; 2d ed., with additions and improvements, ibid. 1842; (2.) A Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture or a Christomathy, 1838 ; (3.) The Philosophy of Ecclesiastes, being an Introduction to the Book of Ec clesiastes, Biblical Repository, July 1838; (4.) The Hebrew Syntax, being the second volume of his Hebrew Grammar, 1841 ; ad ed., 1842 ; besides several articles in the Biblical Repository. This laborious student, who made such valuable contri butions to the better understanding of the language of the 0. T., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 1842, at the age of thirty.three. Dr. Nordheimer also left the following works in MS.: (1.) A Chaldee and Syriac Grammar, in German ; (2.) Arabic Gram mar, in German ; (3.) A lazger Arabic Grammar, in English ; (4.) A translation and exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes, in German ; (5.) Hebrew Con cordance, incomplete ; (6.) Philological Memoranda, etc. etc. ; (Robinson, Bibliotheca Sacra, 1843, p. 379-390).—C. D. G.