Arnoldi (or Arnold),Albert Jakob

Arnoldi (or Arnold),Albert Jakob a reformed theologian and Oriental scholar of Germany, was born Oct. 1,1750, at Herborn. He studied at Groningen and Leyden, in the latter place under his. uncle, the famous J. J. Schultens. In 1778 he was called to Hanau as professor of sacred philology and church history, and in 1789 he accepted a call to Marburg, which he retained until his death. Here Vilmar, Hupfeld, and others were his pupils, who were always loud in praising his learning, piety, and theological moderation. He died Sept. 4, 1835.. He wrote, Anmerkungen uber Stellen der Spriiche Solomons (Frankfort, 1781):--Chronici Abulpharagani e Scriptoribus Graecis Illustrati Specimen' (Marburg, 1805):-Observatt. ad quaedam Jesaice Loca (ibid. 1796). See Rehm, Mai-burger Programm vom 13. Sept. 1835; Hupfeld and Bickell, Marburger Gratulationsschrift, zum 28. Jili, 1827; Vilmar, in Gerland's Fortsetzung von Strieder's Hess. Gelehrtengesch. p. 133; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 212, 218, 277, 305. (B. P.)