Genus Hilleria
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For Matthaeus Hiller (1646–1725), German professor of logic, metaphysics and the Hebrew language at the University of Tübingen (1692), who was a ‘competent expert in the Hebrew language with considerable grammatical and vocabulary [skills] which he used in his exploration of the Old Testament’. He became professor of theology in 1698 and domus master (headmaster) of the evangelical lodgings (1694–1700). In 1716 he became the abbot prelate, an ecclesiastical position of superior rank in Königsbronn. Among his many religious publications, he wrote Hierophyticon, Sive Commentarius in Loca Scripturae Sacrae Quæ Plantarum Faciunt Mentionem Distinctus in Duas Partes (1705), a commentary on the plants mentioned in the Bible.