KÖCHER, HERMANN FRIEDRICH:

By: Crawford Howell Toy, Bernhard Pick

German Christian Hebraist; born at Osnabrück in 1747; died April 2, 1792. He was the author of "Specimen Observationum Philologicarum in I Sam. ii." Jena, 1772; "Comm. Sistens Explicationem Vocum et Gen. i. 3, 5, de Deo Usurpatorum," ib. 1778; "Comm. ad Gen. ii. 18-20, de Vocatis ab Adamo Animantibus," ib. 1779; "Stricturarum Antimasorethicarum in Kirjan et Chetib ad Librum Judicum Specimen," ib. 1780; "Versuch einer Erklärung der Gesch. Saul's mit der Betrügerin zu Endor," Gera,1780; "Nova Bibliotheca Hebraica" (with a preface by J. G. Eichhorn), 2 vols., Jena, 1783-84, a supplement to Wolf's "Bibliotheca Hebræa."

T. B. P.