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Volume 18 · 65 words · 1797 Edition

(Herman), a learned and eminent divine of North Holland, born at Enckhuizen in 1626. He was professor of divinity successively at Franeker, Utrecht, and Leyden; and applied himself successfully to oriental learning, of which his capital work Ægyptica affords sufficient proof. His Economy of the Covenants between God and Men, is warmly recommended by Mr Hervey in his Theron and Aspasia. He died in 1708.