Johann Matthäus Hassencamp

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Johann Matthäus Hassencamp (July 28, 1743 – October 6, 1797) was a German Orientalist and Protestant theologian born in Marburg.

He studied philology, mathematics, theology and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen. Afterwards, he continued his studies in France, Holland and England, followed by a return to Marburg, where in 1768 he received his habilitation. Later, he became a professor of Oriental languages and mathematics at the University in Rinteln, where in 1777 he was given additional responsibilities as head of the university library.

Among his better known written works was an exegetical treatise on the Pentateuch (Commentatio de Pentateucho LXX interpretum) and a 1793 biography of theologian Johann David Michaelis. From 1789 until his death, he was publisher of the influential weekly magazine Annalen der neuesten theologischen Litteratur und Kirchengeschichte (Annals of the Latest Theological Literature and Church History). In the fields of mathematics and physics, he published a work on the history involving efforts to determine longitude, titled Kurze Geschichte der Bemühungen die Meereslänge zu erfinden (1769).

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Date of birth	July 28, 1743
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Date of death	October 6, 1797
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