Georg Otho

Georg Otho (also: Otto ; * July 25, 1634 in Sattenhausen ; † May 28, 1713 in Marburg ) was a German orientalist .

Life

The son of the surveyor and church elder Nikolaus Otho and his wife Katherine Borchers had received his first training at the pedagogy in Göttingen . He continued this training in Kassel , and frequented the high schools in Bremen and Groningen . In 1654 he moved to the University of Marburg to study the philosophical sciences. After graduation, he became vice rector in Detmold , in 1665 private teacher in Kassel and in 1670 rector of the city school in Hanau . In 1676 he returned to the education department in Kassel as vice-principal before being appointed professor of Greek language and poetry and librarian at the University of Marburg in 1679 . Later the professorship of oriental languages ​​was added. He held these offices until the end of his life.

family

Otho was married three times. His first marriage was in 1660 with Christine Agnes Rinschaf from Detmold. From this marriage there were two sons and four daughters, who all died before their father. His second marriage was on October 20, 1680 with Helene († May 25, 1684), the daughter of the Kassel pharmacist Georg Moshamer. From this marriage one knows the children Andreas Otho (became a physician, received his doctorate in Marburg 1706 as Dr. med.), Elenore Marie Otho, Anna Elisabeth Otho (* around 1668, † 1751 in Marburg). His third marriage was in 1693 with Marthe, the widow of Johann Bauer in Ziegenhain.

Works (selection)

• Vexatissimarum SS vocum Urim et Thummim verus sensus. Marburg 1680, 1695, 1696,
• Δειπνον Κυριακον, he de sacra domini coena exeercitationes philol. Quinque. Marburg 1685
• Virga Aharonis polyglottos (Num. 17, 1–11). Marburg 1692
• Brevissimum universae accentuationis sacrae linguae Compendium. Marburg 1697
• Synopsis institutionum Samarit. Rabbi. Arabic. Ethiop. et Persicarum. Frankfurt am Main 1701, 1717
• Palaestra linguarum orientalium (Gen. 1-4). Frankfurt am Main 1702

literature

• Adolf Link:  Otho, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 537.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Griesbach, Kassel, 1795, vol. 10, p. 186, ( online )
• Otto or Otho, Georg, professor. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 25, Leipzig 1740, column 2432 f.