Gutbier, Aegidius

Gutbier, Aegidius a German Orientalist, was born at Weissensee, in Thuringia, Sept. 1, 1617. He studied at different universities, was in 1652 professor of Oriental languages at Hamburg, took in 1660 his degree as doctor of theology at Giessen, and died September 27, 1667. He published, Novum Testamentum Syriacum: — Lexicon Syriacum: — Notae Criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum: — De Sibyllis et Earum Oraculis. See Moller, Cimbria Litterata; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)