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nations and languages, each bearing an inscription by which it is recognised. In 18G7 the convent had 75 priests, and 6 clerical and 17 lay brothers. The "Stiftsschule" ("Gymnasium" and Lj'ceum) number- ed about 200 pupils. Until 1852 the convent had a sec- ond "gymnasium" in Bellizona, in the canton of Tes- sin, V)ut in that year it was suppressed by the Liberal government of the canton. See Placidus, Documenta arckiv/i Eiasidlensis (:> vols, folio); A/maks Jleremi DciparcF matris (Frib. Brisg. 1012, fol.) ; Herzog, lieal- Enajliop. iii, 7-12 ; Landolt, Ursprunr/ u. erste Gestal- tung (l(S Kiisters Einsiedeln (Einsied. 1845) ; Brandes, Dtr hiil. Melnrad u. die Wallfahrt von Einsiedeln (Ein- siedeln, 1861).
Eisenmenger, Johann Andreas, a German Ori- entalist, was born at INIannheim in 1G54, and studied at the University of Heidelberg, in which, after a journey to England and Holland, he became in 1700 professor of Oriental languages. He died in 1704. His princi- pal work is entitled Entdecktes Judenthiim(Frnkf. 1700). The Jews opposed its publication by all means in their power, and even obtained an imperial edict against it. At the time of his deatli nearly the whole edition of the work still lay under arrest. The Jews shortly be- fore offered him 12,000 florins for the surrender of all the copies, but he asked 30,000. Friedrich I of Prus- sia appealed, in behalf of the heirs of Eisenmenger, to the emperors Leopold and Joseph for permission to publish the book, and, when this led to no result, had the book reprinted and published at his own expense (Konigsberg, 1711). Subsequently the I"rankfort edi- tion was also permitted to see the light. Eisenmenger also compiled a Lexicon Orientale harmonicum, which has never been printed, and he published, conjointlj' with Leusden (q. v.), in 1G94, an editinii (without points) of tha Heb. Bible.— Herzog, Re..l-Eni.yk. iii, 744; Hoe- fer, Biorj. Gen. xv, 776 ; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. xii, 311 ; Jest, Gesch. der Juden. vol. viii. (J. H. W.)
E'ker (Heb. id. '^p>, a plant rooted up and trans- planted, e. g. metaph. a resident /bm^wer. Lev. xxv, 47), the youngest of the three sons of Earn, the grand- son of Hezron (1 Cliron. 11, 27 ; Sept. 'Afcop, Vulg. Achar). B.C. post 1856.
Ekkehard, the name of several learned monks of St. Gall. The lirst of the name, about the middle of the 10th centurj', was the director of the convent school, and subsequently dean of the convent. He laid the foun- dation of the literary celebrity' of St. Gall, wrote sev- eral ecclesiastical hymns, and is honorably mentioned in the history of German literature. Another Ekke- hard, a nephew of the former, was also a director of the convent school, and subsequently a chaplain of emperor Otto IL He also composed ecclesiastical hymns, and is supposed to have been familiar with ste- nograph;-. He died April 23, 990. A third Ekkehard, born al)out 980, was a pupil of Notker Labeo, and be- came distinguished for his knowledge of Latin, Greek, German, mathematics, astronomy, and music. Aribo, archbishop of ISIentz, appoiifted him superior of the cathedral school of that city. He continued the An- nals of St. (iall, which a monk by the name of Katper- tus had begun and carried to tlie year 883. This work. Casus ]\fonnsterii JSanrti Galli (printed in Alonnmenta Germanuv liistor. Srr/ptor. ii, 74-163) is of great im- portance for the Church history of the 10th century. Ekkehard also compiled a collection of ecclesiastical hymns, under the title I.iher Bcnediciionuvi. He wrote a ])oem, I)e ornatu dictionis, and translated a life of St. Gall, in (Jcrman verses by liatpertus, into Latin. He died in 10;;6. A fourth Ekkehard, who lived at the beginning of the 12th ccntun,', wrote a Vita Sancti Not- keri. — Herzog, Reid-Encyklop. iii, 745. (A. J. S.)
Ek'rebel('F.K-pf/Si'/\; Va»\\. Ecrabat ; Vulg. omits), a place named in Jud. vii, 18 ojily, as "near to Chusi, which is on the brook Mochmur," apparently some- where in the hill countrv to the south-east of the Plain
of Esdraelon and of Dothain. The Syriac reading of the word points to the place Acrubhein, mentioned by Eusebius in the Onomasticon as the capital of a district called Acrabattine, and still standing as Akrabih, about six miles south-east of Nablus (Shechem), in the Wady Makfuriyeh, on the road to the Jordan valley (Van de Velde, ii, 304, and Map). Though frequentlj- mention- ed by Josephus ( War, ii, 20, 4 ; iii, 3, 5, etc.), neither the place nor the district are named in the Bible, and they must not be confounded with those of the same name in the south of Judah. — Smith, s. v. See Ak- kabbim; Arabattine; Maaleh-acrabbim.