Johann Tobias Krebs (literary scholar)

Not to be confused with Johann Tobias Krebs, the Baroque composer.

Johann Tobias Krebs (16 December 1718, Buttstädt – 6 April 1782, Grimma) was a German scholar of classical literature and Hebrew literature. He wrote Decreta Romanorum pro Judaeis facta e Iosepho collecta et commentario historico-grammatico-critico illustrata, based on Josephus. He was also an editor of Hesiod (1746).

He was rector of Grimma. He was a pupil of Johann August Ernesti.

References

• Sandys, J.E. A History of Classical Scholarship, 1908, p. 14.
• Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952, v. 1, p. 5.