Hartwig Hirschfeld
Hartwig Hirschfeld | |
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| Born | 18 December 1854 |
| Died | 10 January 1934 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse |
Pauline Loewe
(m. 1890; died 1929) |
| Children | Louis Hirschfeld (1893–1898)[1] Rosamund Hirschfeld (b. 1895) Beatrice Amelie Hirschfeld (b. 1897) Dorothy Hirschfeld |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Strasburg |
| Thesis | Jüdische elemente im Ḳorân: Ein beitrag zur Ḳorânforschung (1878) |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodor Nöldeke |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Judith Lady Montefiore College Jews' College University College London |
| Main interests | Oriental studies |
Hartwig Hirschfeld
Biography
Hartwig Hirschfeld was born to a
After teaching in Posen for a few years, Hirschfeld immigrated to
Publications
Hirschfeld's publications include a German translation of Judah Halevi's Kuzari, relying on the Arabic original (1885); a critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translation by Judah ibn Tibbon (1887); an English translation (1905), of which a revised edition appeared in 1932;[8] Arabic Chrestomathy in Hebrew Characters (1892); the Al-Sab'iniyya, an Arabic philosophic poem by Musa ibn Tubi (1894); Beiträge zur Erklärung des Koran (1886), elaborated into New Researches into the Composition and Exegesis of the Koran (1902); the Hebrew translation of the Book of Definitions by Isaac Israeli (1896); Yefet ben Ali's commentary on the Book of Nahum (1911); Sketch of Hebrew Grammar (1913); Qirqisānī Studies (1918); An Ethiopic-Falasi Glossary (1921); Commentary on Deuteronomy (1925); and Literary History of Hebrew Grammarians and Lexicographers (1926). Among his bibliographical writings are a Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (1904). Hirschfeld also contributed articles to numerous periodicals, most notably a series of essays on the Arabic fragments in the Cairo Geniza in the Jewish Quarterly Review (1903–1908).[9]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Emanuel, Victor Rousseau (1904). "Hirschfeld, Hartwig". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 420.
- ^ "Communal Announcements". The Jewish World. 17 June 1898.
- OCLC 793104984.
- The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-8147-9378-7.
- OCLC 644583327.
- ^ a b Harris, Isidore (1906). History of Jews' College: November 11th 1855 – November 10th 1905. London: Luzac & Co. pp. 112–116.
- ^ ISSN 1356-1863.
- ISSN 2391-7385.
- ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
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