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'''Johann Christoph Wolf''' (born at [[Wernigerode]], February 21&nbsp;1683; died at [[Hamburg]], July 25&nbsp;1739) was a German [[Christian Hebraist]], [[polyhistor]], and collector of books.<br />
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He studied at [[Wittenberg]], and traveled in Holland and England in the interest of science, coming in contact with [[Campeius Vitringa]], [[Willem Surenhuis]], [[Adriaan Reland]], [[Basnage]], and others. He especially occupied himself with the study of Oriental languages and literature, of which he became professor at the Hamburg gymnasium in 1712.<br />
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At this time the Oppenheimer Collection was housed at Hamburg, and Wolf determined to devote himself to a description of Jewish literature based upon this collection. His researches resulted in ''Bibliotheca Hebræa'' (4 vols., Hamburg, 1715–33), the first volume of which contains a list of Jewish authors, while the second deals with the subject matter under the headings "Bible," "Talmud," "Cabala," etc. The knowledge of Christendom about the [[Talmud]] was for nearly a century and a half derived from Wolf's statements. Vol. iii. is a supplement to vol. i.; vol. iv. to vol. ii.<br />
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Wolf's work forms the basis of [[Steinschneider]]'s catalogue of the [[Bodleian Library]], which has references to it on nearly every page. Besides this work he issued a history of [[Hebrew lexicon]]s (for his doctor's dissertation; Wittenberg, 1705), and "Notitia Karæorum" (Hamburg, 1721).<br />
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Wolf was owner a big library of 25,000 volumes, books and oriental manuscripts. Among the rest, he acquired the collection of the Frankfurter councillor [[Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach]].<br />
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== Selected works ==<br />
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=yz1BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Curae philologicae et criticae in Novum Testamentum''] Basilee 1741.<br />
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==References==<br />
* [[Moritz Steinschneider]], ''Bibliographisches Handbuch'', 1859, pp. xviii. et seq. <br />
* Steinschneider, ''Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana'' col. 2730; <br />
* [[Julius Fürst]], ''Bibliotheca Judaica'' iii. 528 <br />
* [[John McClintock (theologian)|John McClintock]] and [[James Strong (theologian)|James Strong]], ''Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature''<br />
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=238&letter=W&search=Johann%20Christoph%20Wolf Wolf, Johann Christoph] by Crawford Howell Toy and Joseph Jacobs<br />
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