Adolf Neubauer

Adolf Neubauer ( born March 7, 1832 in Kotešová, † April 6, 1907 in London ) was a Hebrew scholar. He was librarian and lecturer at Oxford, wrote, among other things Mediaeval Jewish Chronicles, Edition; Catalogue of the Heb. MSS in the Bodleian Library.

Life

Adolf Neubauer was born in 1832 in the Slovak Kotešová as the son of a businessman. In 1850, he worked as a teacher at a Jewish school in his birthplace. Then he became a student of the Jewish scholar Solomon Judah Rapoport in Prague. From 1853 he studied Oriental languages ​​at the University of Munich.

1857 moved Neubauer to Paris, where he apart from the occasional travel and staying in Jerusalem, following eleven years were spent. In Paris he learned Orientalists Ernest Renan, Salomon Munk and Joseph Derenbourg know, published texts of various authors karaitischer and continued his critical studies of ancient Palestine. 1863, the price of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, he was awarded for his publication La géographie du Talmud.

1868 Neubauer began cataloging all the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. His first band consisted of 2602 manuscripts, extended by an atlas with facsimile plates. He made ​​an important contribution to Hebrew paleography. In 1873 he was Provincial Governor of the Bodleian Library. He quickly realized the value of the manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza and took over a part of it in the library's collection.

From 1884 Neubauer lectured at the University of Oxford.

In 1900, Neubauer retired because he was blinded increasingly. He moved to Vienna, but returned in 1906 to England, where he soon died out.