Michael Friedländer

Michael Friedländer
Portrait of Michael Friedländer.
Born	(1833-04-29)29 April 1833 Jutroschin, Posen
Died	10 December 1910(1910-12-10) (aged 77)

Michael Friedländer (29 April 1833 – 10 December 1910) was an

, and still remains in print.

Biography

Friedländer was born at

.

In 1856, he began studies in classical languages and mathematics at the universities of

Arabic

.

He retired from this position in 1907, and died on 10 December 1910. His son-in-law was Moses Gaster (1856–1939), the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist.

Works

Friedländer displayed considerable literary activity. He authored a few dozen articles for the

he published under its auspices:

• The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on Isaiah, translated into English with extensive annotations (available on Google Books)
• An Essay on the Writings of Ibn Ezra
• A translation from the original
  Guide of the Perplexed
  (1881).
• The Jewish Religion (1890, American edition: 1946)
• German commentary upon the Song of Songs (1867).

He also edited a Jewish Family Bible in English and Hebrew, compiled a Handbook of the Jewish Religion, made calculations on the

, the Dictionary of National Biography, and other publications. Numerous papers read by him at Jews' College and elsewhere have been published.

References

• Gaster, Theodor (1946), "Dr. Michael Friedländer (a biographical sketch)", in Michael Friedländer (ed.), The Jewish Religion (2nd ed.), New York: Pardes
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Seligsohn, Max (1901–1906). "Friedländer, Michael". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. The JE cites the following works:
  • Jewish Year Book, 1899;
  • Jewish Chronicle, May 8, 1903.J

External links

• Works by Michael Friedländer at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)