TABLONSKI, PAUL ERNEST, the son of Daniel Erncst Jablonski, a distinguished minister of the Protestant Church, was born at Berlin in 1693. He was educated at the University of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, where ho applied himself with great diligence and success to the study of the Coptic and other oriental languages. At the age of twenty-one he was sent at the expense of the Prussian government to the various public libraries in Europe, in order to pursue his studies and to make extracts from Coptic manuscripts. In 1720 he was appointed minister of the Protestant church at Liebenberg, and in 1722 professor of theology at Frankfurt-ou•the-Oder, and also minister of the Protestant church in the same place. He died on the 13th of September 1757.
The most important of Jabloaski's works are Pantheon Sarum, biVO de Diis eorum Commentarius, cam l'rolegomenis de Religions et Theologia 2E4yptiorum,' 3 vols. 8vo, 1750-52; De Memnone Grmeorum et iEgyptiorum, hujusquo celeberrima in The blade Statua,' 4to, 1753; ' Remphah sEgyptionim Deus al) Israblitis in Deserto cultus,' 8vo, 1731 ; ' Disserfationea Academicie de terra Cosen; 4to, 1735.36; 'Disquisitio de Lingua Lyeaonica ' (which is
mentioned in tho 'Acts of the Apostles,' xiv. 11), 4to, 1714-24; ' L•'xercitatio Historico Theologian de Neatoranismo,' 8vo, 1724; 'De ultin.is Pauli Apostoli Laboribus a Luca prmtermissia,' 4to, 1746; Inatitutiones Histories Christiana) Antiquioris,' 8vo, 1754; 'Inatitu tiones Histories Christiana) recentioris,' 8vo, 1756. Several of these works have been republished, with many additions and corrections by Te Water, under the title of ' Opuscula quibus Lingua et Antiquitates Atyptiorum, dxfElcilia Librorum Sacrorum Loca, at Historical Eccle 'demi= Capita illustrantur,' &c., 4 vols. 8vo, Leyden, 1804-13.