Johann Jakob Reiske was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics. Wikipedia
Born: December 25, 1716, Zörbig, Germany
Died: August 14, 1774 (age 57 years), Leipzig, Germany
Books: Dēmosthenous Philippikoi kai symbouleutikoi, Anthologiae Graecae a Constantino Cephala Conditae Libri Tres. Ad Editionem Leipsiensem Joannis Jacobi Reiske Expressi. Accedunt Interpretatio Latina, Poetarum Anthologicorum Notitia, Indices Necessarii, Demosthenis et Æschinis quæ exstant omnia, indicibus locupletissimis, continua interpretatione latina [by H. Wolfius], varietate lectionis, scholiis tum Ulpianeis tum anonymis, annotationibus variorum H. Wolfii, Obsopoei, Taylori, Marklandi, Jurini, Mounteneii, Stockii, Harlesii, F. A. Wolfii, Spaldingii, Augeri, Rüdigeri, Wunderlichii, Bremii, aliorumque et suis illustravit Gulielmus Stephanus Dobson ... Accedunt animadversiones Reiskii, Dounæi, Weiskii, Amersfoordtii, et nunc primum publici juris factæ Thomæ Stanleii vel potius Jacobi Duporti. [With the "ὑποθεσεις" of Libanius, the lives of Demosthenes by Plutarch, Lucian and others in Greek, the Greek text of Ulpian's commentaries on Demosthenes, and "Christiani Frid. Matthæi ... Libellus academicus de Aeschine oratore, etc."], and more
Education: Leipzig University