. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. sect, flourishedin the latter part of the thirteenth, and the be-ginning of the fourteenth, century. He was firstmade bishop of Sigara and Arabia, about theyear 1285, atl afterwards appointed archbishopof Nisibis, called by the Assyrians Soba. Hedied in the year 1318. He was the author of A Catalogue of Chaldee Ecclesiastical Writ- voyage to Africa at the command of FrederickAugustus II. king of Poland, and elector o
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. sect, flourishedin the latter part of the thirteenth, and the be-ginning of the fourteenth, century. He was firstmade bishop of Sigara and Arabia, about theyear 1285, atl afterwards appointed archbishopof Nisibis, called by the Assyrians Soba. Hedied in the year 1318. He was the author of A Catalogue of Chaldee Ecclesiastical Writ- voyage to Africa at the command of FrederickAugustus II. king of Poland, and elector ofSaxony. Having explored the neighbourhoodof Tripoli and Tunis, travelled through part ofthe desert between these two towns, and exa-mined the ruins of Carthage, he was obliged toreturn in consequence of the kings death in theyear 1733. From this expedition he broughtback with him a gre.;t many curious animals,with an immense collection of plants, herbs,shells, and other curiosities. The animalswere placed in the menagerie at Dresden, andpart of the curiosities were sent to the kingscollection. Hebenstreit was patronised by Au-gustus III. in tiic same manner as he had been. / H E B ( 89^ )• H ]?: B iy liis fatlier, and soon after his return fromAfrica was appointed public professor of medi-cine at Leipsic, where he died in the year 1757of a malignant fever, which after battle ofKc-bach proved fatal to many of the physiciansof that city. Hebensireit possessed an exten-sive knowledge of , medicine, bothancient and modern, natural history, botany,and anatomy. He I\ad a ready talent for Latinpoetry, and was well acquainted with the Greeklanguage. He was deeply versed in tlie studyof nature, and to him Leipsic is in part indebtedfor a valuable collection of curiosities. As abotanist, he published A Defence of theMethod of Rivinus, and proposed methodsof his own in two works — DcfinitionesPlantarum, 1731, quarto; and De MethodoPlantarum ex Fructu optima, 1740, qu
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