Matthäus Aurogallus
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Matthäus Aurogallus, also known as Matthäus Goldhahn (1490 - November 10, 1543) was a German linguist.
Born in Komotau, Bohemia, he served as Professor of Hebrew at the University of Wittenberg and was a colleague of Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther. He assisted Luther in the revision of the reformer's translation of the Old Testament.[1]
He died at Wittenberg.
[edit] Works
- Hebräisch und chaldäisch Grammatik (1523-25, 1531)
- Chronik der Herzöge uund Könige von Böhmen
- Hebräisch historisch-geographisches Reallexicon (1526-1539)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz, "AUROGALLUS (Goldhahn), Matthäus, Hebraist," in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexicon Online (Nordhausen, Germany:Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2006), 1:304.
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