Hungarian Librarians - Adolf Neubauer, Gyorgy Pray, Ilona Hubay, Edward R. Straznicky (Paperback)

Chapters: Adolf Neubauer, Gyorgy Pray, Ilona Hubay, Edward R. Straznicky. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adolf Neubauer (March 11, 1831, Bittse (aka Nagybiccse, German:, Slovak: ), Upper Hungary, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire - 1907) was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University. Born at Bittse, Hungary, he received a thorough education in rabbinical literature. In 1850 he got a position at the the Austrian Consulate in Jerusalem. At this time he published articles about the situation of the city's Jewish population, which aroused against him 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 strated making scientific publications. His earliest contributions were made to the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and the Journal Asiatique (Dec., 1861). 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 In 1864 Neubauer was entrusted with a mission to Saint Petersburg to examine the numerous, hitherto unpublished Karaite manuscripts preserved there. 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 Geographie 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. Sample page from the Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford by Adolf Neubauer (1886) (volume 1 contains approximately 900 such pages)Since 1865 he lived ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8599873