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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn
1752Oct, 16

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (16 October 1752, in Dörrenzimmern – 27 June 1827, in Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History.

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