Editing Johann David Michaelis (section)

==Family==
* Michaelis' great uncle [[Johann Heinrich Michaelis]] (1668–1738) was the chief director of [[August Hermann Francke|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).<ref name=EB1911/>
* Michaelis' daughter Luise Michaelis was briefly engaged to Gothic writer and philosopher [[Carl Grosse]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Bridgwater |first=Patrick |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864747549 |title=German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective. |publisher=Rodopi |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-306-16765-9 |location=Amsterdam |pages=74 |oclc=864747549}}</ref>
* 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 language|Syriac]].<ref name=EB1911/>
* Michaelis' daughter [[Karoline Schelling|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]].