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tfte Gaulanitis, and the territories of Og king of Ba¬ 
lkan. . 
JA'BESH, [Heb. drynefs.] The name of a man ; the 
name of a place. 
JA'BESH GIL'EAD, [Heb.] A city in the land of Ifrael. 
JA'BEZ, [Heb. forrow.] A man’s name. 
JA'BIN, [Heb. a builder.] A man’s name. 
JA'BINEEL, [Heb. the building of God.] The name 
of a city. JoJhua. 
JABLONOW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Eraclaw : fixty-four miles north-weft of Braclaw. 
JABLUNKAW', a town of Silefia, in the principality' 
of Tefchen, on the river Elia, with a fort npt far from it, 
called Jablunka Fort, to guard the pafs into Hungary : 
eleven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Tefchen, and lixteen and 
a half eaft-fouth-eait of Friedek. 
JABLONOW'SKY (jofeph-Alexander), prince of Ja- 
blonow, &c. member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, 
and of other learned focieties, was born in the year 1712. 
As his aunt by the father’s fide was mother of Staniflaus 
Lefciniki, king of Poland, and his uncle’s wife After to 
queen Maria Cafimira, thefe families endeavoured to pro¬ 
mote the intereft of Staniflaus, and on that account were 
ennobled in the year 1744 by the emperor Charles VII. 
Jofeph-Alexander, who at that time was ftaroft of Buik, but 
who afterwards became wayvode of Novogorod, devoted 
himfelf chiefly to the fciences, and for the fake of im¬ 
provement made feveral tours through Germany and 
France. When the troubles broke out in Poland, he left 
that country entirely, and in 1773 refigned the fenatorial 
dignity. He then fixed his refidence at Leipfic, where 
htf diftinguiflied himfelf, not only as the friend and pro¬ 
testor of fcience, but as a man of talents and confider- 
able literary acquirements. He took pleafurein the com¬ 
pany of learned men, and gave a proof of his attachment 
to the caufe of philofophy and fcience, by founding the 
Jablonowfky Society, to which he afllgned a liberal fum 
for the purpofe of diftributing premiums to the authors 
of the belt anlwers to queftions propofed on hiftorical 
and other fubjefts. Since the eftablifliment of this loci- 
ety, it has publifhed feveral volumes of papers, under the 
title of Tranfaftions. This fociety meets once a-year, 
and holds its fittings at Leipfic. This excellent prince 
died in March, 1777 His works are, The Lives of twelve 
Generals, in the Polifh language; a Treatife on the Scla¬ 
vonic Poetry, and feveral others of a fimilar nature ; alfo 
Vindiciae Lechi & Czechi, Lipf. 1770, 4I0. another en¬ 
larged edition of which was publifhed at the fame place 
in 1775. 
JABLON'SKI (Daniel-Erneft), a learned Polilh divine 
of the reformed church, born at Dantzicin the year 1660. 
He received part of his education in the college of Lifla ; 
whence, in 1677, he went to the univerfity of Frankfort 
on the Oder. After continuing there till the year 1680, 
he went for further improvement to Holland and to 
England; and in the latter country prolecuted his ftudics 
for a year in the univerfity of Oxford. Upon his return 
to his native country in 1683, he was admitted to the 
mirriftry, and appointed paftor of the reformed church at 
Magdeburg. In 1.686 he was promoted to the redtorfnip 
of the college of Lifla, with which was connedted the of¬ 
fice of Polifh minifter. In 1690 he accepted of an invi¬ 
tation to be minifter at KonigfDurg; and three years af¬ 
terwards was called to Berlin, to be minifter to the court. 
He engaged in an attempt to promote an union between 
the Lutherans and Calvinifts, and to introduce into Pruflia 
a. conftitution of church-government refembling that of 
the Englifh eftablifliment; but his efforts, as might be 
expeffed, proved ineffedtual. In 1706, M. jablonfki re¬ 
ceived the diploma of doctor of divinity from the univer¬ 
fity of Oxford. In 17x8, the king of Pruflia ■nominated 
him counfellor of the confiftory ; in 1719, member of the. 
directory of the reformed churches; and, in 1733, prefi- 
clent of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. He died in 
5.74.x, after, he had completed his eightieth year. He was 
JAB Git) 
the author of, 1. Biblia Hebraica, cum Notis Hebraic!? 
& Lemmatibus Latinis, See. 1699. 2. Jura & Libertates 
Diflidentium in Religione Chriltiana in Regno Poloniie 
& Magno Ducatu Lithuania:, ex Legibus Regni & aliis 
Monumentis authenticis excerpta, 170S; to which was 
added a continuation, in 1718. 3. Oppreflorum in Pola- 
nia Evangelicorum Defideria, Fundamenta Deflderiorutn, 
Media quibus Juvari poflunt, 1723. 4. Meditatione* de 
divina Origine Scripturas Sacras, 1742. 5. Latin tranfla- 
tipns of Dr. Bentley’s Sermons at Boyle’s Leisures, and 
of that part of Bifliop Burnet’s Expolition of the thirty- 
nine Articles of the Church of England, which relates to 
the doffrines of predeftination. 6. A Catechifm, in Ger¬ 
man and Rabbinical charafters, 1708, 4to. 7. Iliftoria 
Confenfus Sendomirenfis, 1731, 4to. 8. Homilies; and 
an account, in German, of the Tumult at Thorn in 1724, 
and the cruelties practiled on the Proteftants.; of which 
M. Beaufobre the younger, publifhed a French tranfiation, 
entitled Thorn ajfligee. See. 1726, 8vo. 
JABLON'SKY (Charles-Guftavus), a diligent natu- 
ralift, and private fecretary to the queen of Pruflia, died at 
Berlin, in the month of May, 1787, at the early age of 
thirty-one. The premature death of this laborious young 
man, who had he lived longer might have been of great 
fervice to natural hiftory, and particularly to entomology, 
was much regretted. He began his entomological career- 
with, A Syftem of all the known indigenous and foreign 
Infefts, arranged according to the Linnasan fyltem, and 
intended as a continuation of Buffon’s Natural Hiftory. 
The fhare which Jablonfky had in this work extends no 
further than the feventh (heet of the third volume. His 
tedious illnefs rendered it impoflible for him to continue 
further an undertaking which required fo much labour 
and attention. After his death, a continuation of it was 
begun by Mr. Herbft, a clergyman at Berlin, who in- 
crealed it to feven parts. Jablonfky was employed alfo 
.on a continuation of Martini’s General Hiftory of Nature ; 
and, to render the German fcientific terms which ento- 
mologifts have adopted more ufeful and better known,, 
he had promileri an entomological dictionary,, containing 
all the fynonymes and appellations. 
JABLON'SKY (John-Theodore), brother of Daniel- 
F.rneft, was born at Dantzic in 1654. Having repaired at 
a very early age to Amfterdam, he was educated there 
by his grandfather Comenius till the year 1670, when 
he was placed at the Joacliims-thal lchool at Berlin. Two 
years after he was fent to the Gymnafium of Konigfberg, 
and tlifen to Frankfort on the Oder. From 1680^0 1682 
he made a tour through Germany, Holland, and England ;. 
and, in 1687, accompanied the princefs of Deflau, confort, 
of prince Radzivil, to Poland, where he remained till the 
prince’s death. He was then fecretary at the court of the 
duke of Saxe-Barby ; and in 1700 w-as appointed fecre¬ 
tary to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin* then newly 
eftablifhed. From 1715 to 1717 he accompanied on his- 
travels, in the capacity of tutor, to Geneva and Italy, 
Frecferic-William, hereditary prince of Pruflia; and on , 
his- return was appointed a counfellor of ftate. Hedied 
In the month of March, 1731. Thewnoft of Jablonfky’s 
works were publifhed under borrowed names. He was- 
many years employed in making colleftions for a Gentian-. 
Dictionary, but it was never completed. He compoied a 
work on ethics for the ufe of the hereditary prince, which- 
is now exceedingly fcar'ce. Of his works, the following 
deferve to be mentioned: 1. Nouveau DiCHonnaire,. 
Frnn^ois-Alleinand & Allemand-Prangois, Leip. 1711 
1. vol. 1731,-2 vols. 4to. Jablonfky publifhed this under 
the name of Pierre Rondeau.-. He publifhed alfo, under 
the fame name, 2. A French Grammar for the Germans, 
Leip. 1716, 8vo; and, 3. An ‘Explanation .of Gallicifms, 
1.704, i2ino. 4. A general Dictionary of Arts and Sci¬ 
ences, Leip. 1721, 4to. 
JABLON'SKY (Paul-Erneft), doftor of theology, pub- ■ 
lie proreflor of theo'ogv at Frankfort on the Oder, and 
fon of Daniel-Erneft, .was bom at Berlin in 1693. His.:. 
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