Name

Theodoricus Hackspan

Original name

Main activity

Orientalist

Secondary activity

Theologian

Title

Doctor

Name variations

Dietrich Hackspan"

Education place

Jena, Altdorf, Helmstedt

Education institution

Activity place

Altdorf

Activity institution

University of Altdorf

Activity start date

1636

Activity end date

1659

Place of birth

Weimar

Date of birth

1607

Place of death

Altdorf

Date of death

1659

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Thedoricus (Dietrich) Hackspan was a Lutheran orientalist and theologian. His theological stance was influenced by his former teacher, the Helmsted irenicist Georg Calixt (1586-1656). His scholarly interests included Biblical and later Rabbinical Hebrew as well as a study of Arabic and, by the standards of his day, a remarkable study of the Qur'an, which he studied systematically to reconstruct what he took to be the theological framework of Islam.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov