Adolf Neubauer
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Adolf Neubauer (11 March 1831 in
Biography
He was born in Bittse (Nagybiccse),
In 1850 he obtained a position at the Austrian consulate in Jerusalem. At this time, he published articles about the situation of the city's Jewish population, which aroused the anger of some leaders of that community, with whom he became involved in a prolonged controversy.
In 1857 he moved to Paris, where he continued his studies of Judaism and started producing scientific publications.
Works
In 1865 he published a volume entitled Meleket ha-Shir, a collection of extracts from manuscripts relating to the principles of Hebrew versification. In 1864, Neubauer was entrusted with a mission to Saint Petersburg to examine the numerous, hitherto unpublished Karaite manuscripts preserved there.[1] As a result of this investigation he published a report in French, and subsequently Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek (1866).
The work which established his reputation, however, was La Géographie du Talmud (1868), an account of the geographical data scattered throughout the Talmud and early Jewish writings and relating to places in the Land of Israel.
Starting in 1865 he lived in England and in 1868 his services were secured by the University of Oxford for the task of cataloging the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.[1][2] The catalog appeared in 1886 after 18 years of preparation. The volume includes more than 2,500 entries, and is accompanied by a portfolio with forty facsimiles.
While engaged in this work Neubauer published other works of considerable importance. He purchased a manuscript of the Samaritan Tolidah for the Bodleian and published its text in 1869. In 1875, he edited the Arabic text of the Hebrew dictionary of Abu al-Walid (the Book of Hebrew Roots), and in 1876 published Jewish Interpretations of the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, which was edited by Neubauer and translated by Samuel Rolles Driver jointly in 1877.
In the same year, he contributed Les Rabbins Français du Commencement du XIVe Siècle to L'Histoire Littéraire de la France, though, according to the rules of the
In 1878, Neubauer edited the
In 1892 together with Stern, he published a German translation of a medieval chronicle of the First Crusade: Hebräische Berichte über die Judenverfolgungen Während der Kreuzzüge.[3]
He was the first to discover a fragment of the Hebrew text of Ben Sira.
In 1884, a
He received the M.A. degree at Oxford in 1873 and was elected an honorary fellow of
References
- ^ a b c d "Adolf Neubauer". Jewish Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ S2CID 161990062. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, ii., Berlin, 1892
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Joseph Jacobs, Goodman Lipkind (1901–1906). "Adolf Neubauer". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
Further reading
- Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Jew. Chron.December 1899;
- ibid 8 March 1901;
- Jewish Year Book, 1899.
External links
- Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer, by Joseph Jacobs and Goodman Lipkind.
- Works by or about Adolf Neubauer at Internet Archive
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