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LUD, LUDIM. See Table of Nations.

LUDLOW, JAMES MEEKER: Presbyterian; b. at Elizabeth, N. J., Mar. 15, 1841. He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1861), and Princeton Theological Seminary (1864). He was then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y. (1864-68), Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church, New York City (1868-77), Westminster Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1877,85), and of Munn Av·;nue Presbyterian Church, East Orange, N. J. (1886-1909). He has written: My Saint John (New York, 1883); Concentric Chart of History (1885); Captain of the Janizaries (1886); A King of Tyre (1891); That Angelic Woman (1893); History of the Crusades (1896); Baritone's Pariah (1897); Deborah (1901); Incentives for Life (1903); Sir Raoul (1905); Jesse ben David (1907); and Judge West's Opinion, Reported by a Neighbor (1908).

LUDOLF, 1U'dolf, HIOB: German Orientalist, founder of the study of the Ethiopic language and literature in Europe; b. at Erfurt June 15, 1624; d. at Frankfort-on-the-Main Apr. 8, 1704. He studied at Erfurt and Leyden, then traveled extensively. In Rome he learned Ethiopic from the Abyssinian Gregorius. He became tutor to the children of the duke of Sage-Goths in 1652, afterward sulk councilor, in 1675 chamberlain in Altenburg, and in 1691 president of the Collegium Imperials Historicum in Frankfort, where he had settled in 1678. His principal works are: Lexicon Xthiopico-Latinum (3 parts, London, 1661; 2d ed., Frankfort, 1699); Grammatica linguts Xthiopicas (London, 1661; 2d ed., Frankfort, 1702); Sciagraphia historice Xthiopica: (Jena, 1676); Historic Xthiopica (Frankfort, 1681; Eng. transl., London, 1684; French transl., Paris, 1684), to which he added a Commentaries (1691) and two appendices (1693-94); Grant.. matica lingu (1698); and Lexicon Amharico-Latinism (1698). He also published the Ethiopic Psalter, with Latin translation (1701).

Bibliography: C. Junker, De roils et aeriptia lobi Ludolphi,

Leipsic, 1710: J. Flemming, in Beiträge zur Aaayriologie, vols. i.-ii., ib. 1890-91.

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