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119:, studying first in the gymnasium and afterward at the university, and receiving in 1834 the degree of doctor of philosophy. He was then chiefly interested in Oriental languages, and, through the influence of Professor Wenrich, was engaged as teacher of Hebrew in the Protestant seminary. He was introduced at the same time to the Orientalist,
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received successively from him their instruction in Hebrew and in Jewish history; and in 1839, after a year spent with his pupils in
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