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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891)

Lagarde, Paul Anton de (lä-gärd’). A distinguished German Orientalist; born at Berlin, Nov. 2, 1827; died at Göttingen, Dec. 22, 1891. He became professor of Oriental languages at Göttingen, 1869. Of his very numerous writings the majority relate to the books of the Hebrew Scriptures; but he edited and commented on versions of those books and of the books of the New Testament in Greek, Armenian, Arabian, Syriac, Coptic, etc.