Wilhelm Bacher

William Benjamin Se'ew Bacher ( born January 12, 1850 in Lipto - Szent- Miklós, county Liptau; † 25 December 1913 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Jewish scholar.

Life

Wilhelm Bacher was a descendant of Ja'ir Chaim Bacharach and son of the Hebrew poet and translator of Lessing's " Nathan ", Simon Bacher. After completing his studies in Budapest and Wroclaw (teachers there among other Frankel and Graetz, PhD 1870 in Leipzig) Bacher 1876 rabbi in Szeged, but was followed in 1877 appointed Professor of Biblical Studies ( in the subjects interpreting Scripture, Hebrew Linguistics, Aggada ) where he worked at the newly founded Landesrabbinerschule in Budapest, until his death 36 years as a teacher and most recently as Director.

Bacher mastered a variety of oriental languages ​​, especially Persian and its Literature (Prof. Vambery herein was his first teacher ). He is regarded as "one of the most versatile and prolific Jewish scholar at the turn of the century, a pioneer in the Haggadah and traditional research."

Publications

Bacher wrote extensive works of 45 and more than 750 scientific papers in German, Hebrew, French, Hungarian, Italian and English and published in approximately fifty magazines and daily newspapers since 1869. He was editor of several Jewish-Arab (especially Ibn Dschanach ) and Judeo- Persian works, also headed from 1898 to 1908, the translation of the Old Testament into Hungarian ( four volumes on behalf of the Jewish literary association Izraelita Magyar Irodalmi Társulat ); He was also editor and the only auditor of the 12 -volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was published in New York.

Among his most important professional scientific work include:

  • The Agada of the Babylonian amora, 1878
  • The Agada of the Tannaim, 2 vols, 1884-1890
  • The Agada of the Palestinian amora, 3 vols, 1892-1899 (his main work, on which he had worked for 25 years)
  • The exegetical terminology of the Jewish tradition of literature, 2 parts, 1899-1905
  • Tradition and narrators in the schools of Palestine and Babylonia. Studies and materials about the history of the Talmud, edited posthumously in 1914. Ludwig Blue

Other works Bachers include:

  • Nizami's life and works ( dissertation, 1870)
  • Bible and Biblical history among the Mohammedans, 1878
  • Sadistic aphorisms and epigrams, 1878
  • Abraham Ibn Ezra as a grammarian, 1882
  • Jude Chajug, 1882
  • Editor of the Hungarian- Jewish Revue ( Magyar Zsido Szemle, 1884-1890, together with J. Banoczi )
  • Life and works of Abulwalid, Leipzig 1885
  • Sepher sikkaron. , Published grammar of the Hebrew language by Joseph Kimchi for the first time, Berlin 1888
  • Kitab al Luma ( Hebrew grammar Abulwalids in the original Arabic, edited together. Dern with J. Bourg ), Paris 1888
  • The Bible exegesis of the Jewish religious philosophers of the Middle Ages before Maimonides, Strasbourg 1892
  • The Hebrew linguistics from the 10th to the 16th century, Trier 1892
  • The Jewish Bible exegesis from the 10th to the 15th century, Trier 1892
  • Sepher haschoraschim. Root dictionary of the Hebrew language of the Abulwalid Ibn Ganach, 3 parts, Berlin 1893-1896
  • The Bible exegesis Moses Maimonides, 1896
  • The Oldest terminology of the Jewish interpretation of Scripture. A dictionary of the language of the Tannaim Bibelexegetischen Art, Leipzig 1899
  • Hebrew - Persian dictionary in the 14th century, Strasbourg 1900
  • The Hebrew and Arabic poetry of the Jews [sic ] Yemen, Budapest 1910
  • The prooemia the old Jewish homily, Leipzig 1913
  • Rabbanan, the scholars of the traditions ( posthumously in 1914, ed. Ludwig Blue)
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