• Michaelis' great uncle
Johann Heinrich Michaelis (1668–1738) was the chief director of
A.H. Francke's
Collegium orientale theologicum, a practical school of Biblical and Oriental
philology then quite unique, and the author of an annotated Hebrew Bible and various
exegetical works of reputation, especially the
Adnotationes uberiores in hagiographos (1720). • In his chief publications J. H. Michaelis had as fellow-worker his sister's son
Christian Benedikt Michaelis (1680–1764), the father of Johann David, who was likewise influential as professor at the University of Halle, and a sound scholar, especially in
Syriac. • Michaelis' daughter
Caroline played an important role in early German
Romanticism as the wife of critic
August Wilhelm von Schlegel and later of philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. ==References==