OBERLIN, Jeremie Jacques, a learned antiquary and philologist, the elder brother of the preceding, was born at Strasburg in 1735, and entered the university of his native place. His career was distinguished from the very first by an unwearied devotion to antiquarian research. At the end of his philosophical course, he produced a thesis, entitled De Veterum Ritu Condiendi Mortuos. Then, commencing a theological curriculum, he turned his attention exclusively to the archaeology of the sacred writings. Nor were his favourite studies discontinued when he was appointed assistant and successor to his father in the laborious duties of an elementary teacher in the gymnasium. He requested and obtained permission from the university of Strasburg to deliver a course of lectures on the Latin tongue; he prelected and published manuals on archaeology and ancient geography; and he made frequent excursions into various provinces of France to investigate the antiquarian remains and the provincial dialects of the country. At length, in 1782, his appointment to the chair of logic and metaphysics at Strasburg brought his philosophical activity into full play. He published Dissertations sur les Minnesingers in 1782-89; an edition of Horace in 1788; and Observations concernant le Patois et les Meurs des gens de la Campagne in 1791. The troubles of the French revolution interrupted his studies; and in 1793 he was imprisoned for some time at Metz; but on the restoration of tranquillity he returned with fresh zest to his books. His edition of Tacitus appeared in 1801; and his edition of Cæsar in 1805. He was engaged in editing Justin, when he was cut off by a stroke of apoplexy in 1806.