Johann Tobias Krebs (literary scholar)

Johann Tobias Krebs (16 December 1718, Buttstädt – 6 April 1782, Grimma) was a German scholar of classical literature and Hebrew literature. He wrote Decreta Romanorum pro Judaeis facta e Iosepho collecta et commentario historico-grammatico-critico illustrata, based on Josephus. He was also an editor of Hesiod (1746).

Not to be confused with Johann Tobias Krebs, the Baroque composer.

He was rector of Grimma. He was a pupil of Johann August Ernesti.

References
  • Sandys, J.E. A History of Classical Scholarship, 1908, p. 14.
  • Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952, v. 1, p. 5.


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