K the bite of the gad-fly, to which the word keretz woidd
B fitly apply. "To plough with another man's heifer"
■ (Judg. xiv, 18) implies that an advantage has been H gained by unfair means. The proper names Eglah, En- H eglaim, and Parah are derived from the Hebrew terms B at the head of this article. — Smith, s. v. See Red Hei-
B FEE.
B Heilmann, Johaxx Daviu. a learned German the-
■ ologian, was born at Osnabriick Jan. 13, 1727. He stud-
■ ied at Halle, became rector of Hameln in 1764, and pro- B fessor of theologj- at Gottingen in 1754, where he died B Feb. 22, 1764. His principal writings are Specimen ob-
■ sen: ad illustrat. N. T. (Halle, 1743, 4to) -.—Parallek tn- B trt Vesprit d'ir religion cTaiijourdhui et les anciens adver- B IV.— L
saires de la religion Chretienne (Halle, 1750, Svo) ■.—Com' p)endiuin theologice dogmaticce (Gottingen, 17G1 and 1774 Svo) -.—Opuscula theul. Argrimenti (ed. Danovius, Jena, 1774-77, 2 vols. 8vo).— G. G. Hej'ne, Iletlmanni Mcmo- riu (Gottingen, 1764); J Ocher, A l/gem. gelehrt. Lexilion^ continued by Adelmig, ii, 1868.
Heilprin, Jechiel, a distinguished Jewish philol- ogist and historian, flourished in the first part of the 18th centun,-. He is said to have been born at Jlinsk in 1728, but the time of his death is unknown. He wrote (nin-lin ^'lO) a Historj^ of the Jews, divided into three parts : Chronicles of Historic Events, from the Cre- ation to his own Time. 2. Alphabetical Catalogue of the ]\Iishnaic and Talmudic Doctors. 3. Alphabetical In- dex of Jewish Literati (Karlsr. 1769, and Zolkien, 1808, folio). Also (ni^^^^n ■13'ny b) a Hebrew Rabbinic Dictionary adapted to the Rabboth, Sifra,Mekihha,Yol- kut, and the works of the Cabalists (DjTchenfurt, 1806, foL). Furst commends the excellency of these works, and believes that the first part of Heilprin's history is an able contribution to Hebrew literature. — Fiirst, Bill, Judaica, i, 372 ; Etheridge, Introduction to Hebr. Liter- ature, p. 449. (J. H. W.)
Heineccius, Johaxn Michael, a Lutheran di- vine, was born at Eisenberg Dec. 12, 1674, and was edu- cated at Jena. Frankfort, and Giessen. After a visit to Holland and Hambm-g, he settled for a time in Hclm- stiidt as tutor (L'ocent), but in 1699 became deacon at Goslar. In 1709 he removed to Halle as pastor, and in 1720 was appointed consistorial counsellor and ecclesias- tical inspector of the circle of the Saal (Saalkreis'). He died Sept. 11, 1722. His chief work, Eigentliche und wahrhaftige Abbildung der alten und neutn griecMsclien Kirche nach Hirer IIistoi-ie, Glaubenslehren und Kirchen- gebrduclien (Leipsic, 1711), presents historically the doc- trines, government, liturgy, and morals of the Greek Church, ancient and modem. It is still a work of great value. Besides works in the departments of anticjuities and history, Heineccius wrote Pnifung der sogcnannien neuen Propheten und ihres ausserordentlichen Avfstandes (Halle, 1715), against the French prophets (q. v.): — Sendschi-eiben an Thomas Ittig wegen des Termini Gra- tia, on the Terminist controversy: — De Jiirisconsidtis Christianis priorum sceculorum eorumque in ecclesiam meritis (Halle, 1713): — Colloquia 7-eligiosa publice et prii'atim inter Una hcec scecula habita (Halle and Mag- deburg, 1719, 4to). — Herzog, Reed-Encyllop. xix, 624; Hoefer, Kouv. Biog. Generale, xxiii, 782 ; Sax, Onomas- ticon literarium, pt vi, p. 45. (J. W. M.)
Heinicke, Sajiuel, a German philanthropist, " the most distinguished of the early teachers of the deaf and dumb in Germany," was bom April 10, 1729, at Xautz- schiitz, near Weissenfels, in Prussia, and died at Leipsic April 30, 1780. He passed his early hfe as a farmer and soldier, then pursued a course of study in the Uni- versity of Jena, was subsequently for ten years a tutor of the children of count Schimmelmann at Hamburg, and then removed to Eppcndorf. In this latter place, as early as 1754, he became much interested in a deaf and dumb child, and devised a system of instruction for it, which proved so successful as to attract other deaf mutes to him for instruction, and led to the estabhsh- ment by the elector of Saxony in 1772 of a school at Leipsic for the education of deaf mutes. This school, "the first ever estabhshed or supported by the civil government," was placed under Heinicke's charge, was continued after his death under the charge of his i^dd- ow, and is still existing and prosperous. The "method of instruction was by articulation and reading on the lip," and is said to have been superior in some respects to that of the abbe de rEpee. Heinicke's labors and noble character gained for him deser^-edly the affection of the German people, though his method of treatment of his pupils was probably too harsh, and some of his writings were marred by coarse and ill-natured criticisms of opinions diflering from his own. He wrote upon the
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education of deaf mutes and theological subjects, viz. : Biblische Geschichte des Alten Testcanenfs zum Unter- 7-ichte tauhstuninier Personen (Hamburg, 1776, 8v'o ; only first part given) : — Beohachtum/en iiher Stumme unci iiher die menschliche Sprache in Briefan (Hamb. 1778, 8vo) : — Ueber die Denkart der Tauhstummm und die Miss- handluntjen, denen sie durch unsinnige Kuren und Lehr- arten mm/esetzt sind (Leipsic, 1780, 8vo) : — Ueber alte und neue Lehrarten (Leipsic, 1783) : — Wichfige Entdeck- ungen und Beitrdge zur Seeleidehre und zur menschlichen Sprache (Leipsic, 178i, 8vo): — Metaphysik fiir Schul- meister und Plusmacher (Halle, 1785) : — Ueber graue Vorurtheile und ihre Schaediichkeit (Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1787) : — Scheingotterei der Naturalisten, Deis- ten und Atheistni (KdL'ti'icn, 1788) x—Neues A B C, Syl- ben-und Le.-iihiir!, mJi^t tlner Anweisung, das Lesen in kurzer Zeit tin f ,11, I,i,:lii,:Mi^ Art und ohne Buchstabiren zu lerntn (many editions, last Leipsic, 1790). Schlich- tegroU assigns to Heinicke also a work on Kant's philo- sophical works, printed in German (Presburg, 1789, 8vo), but jMeusel only the preface to it. Heinicke also wrote articles in the Teutscher Merkur and Teutsches Museum, in which he maintained, against the views of the abbe de I'Epee, that deaf mutes shoidd be taught not only to write, but also to speak. — New American Cyclopcedia, vi, 301; ix, 69; Hoefer, Nouv. Biogr. Generale, xxiii, 786 sq. ; Petschke, Historische Nachricht von dem Unter- richte der Taubstumm^n und Blinden (Leipsic, 1793); vSchUchtegroll, Nekrolog (1790), p. 313-315; Meusel, Lexikon der von 1750 bis 1800 verstorbenen deutschen iScliriftsteller (Leipsic, 1802-16). (J.W. M.)