Hartwig Hirschfeld | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 December 1854 Thorn, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died |
10 January 1934 (aged 79) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Pauline Loewe (m. 1890–1929) |
| Children |
Louis Hirschfeld (1893–1898)[1] Rosamund Hirschfeld (b. 1895) Beatrice Amelie Hirschfeld (b. 1897) Dorothy Hirschfeld |
| Alma mater | University of Strasburg |
Hartwig Hirschfeld MRAS (Hebrew: נַפְתָּלִי הַארְטְוִויג בֵּן אַהֲרֹן הִירְשְׁפֵלְד; 18 December 1854 – 10 January 1934) was a Prussian-born British Orientalist, bibliographer, and educator. His particular scholarly interest lay in Arabic language Jewish literature and in the relationship between Jewish and Arab cultures.[2] He is best known for his editions of Judah Halevi's Kuzari—which he published in its original Judeo-Arabic and in Hebrew language, German and English language translations—and his studies on the Cairo Geniza.[3][4]
Biography[]
Hartwig Hirschfeld was born to a Jewish family in Thorn, Prussia. His father, Dr. Aron Hirschfeld, was a rabbi from Dirschau, and his maternal grandfather was the distinguished rabbi Salomon Plessner.[5] After graduating from the Royal Marien Gymnasium in Posen, Hirschfeld studied Oriental languages and philosophy at the University of Berlin, at the same time attending lectures at Azriel Hildesheimer's Rabbiner-Seminar.[6] He received his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in 1878 and, after a year's compulsory service in the Prussian Army, he obtained a travelling scholarship in 1882 which enabled him to study Arabic language and Hebrew language at Paris under Joseph Derenbourg.[7]
After teaching in Posen for a few years, Hirschfeld immigrated to England in 1889, where he became professor of Biblical exegesis, Semitic languages, and philosophy at the Montefiore College.[7] In 1901, he was invited by the Syndicate of Cambridge University to examine the Arabic fragments in the Taylor-Schechter collection.[6] That same year, he was appointed librarian and professor of Semitic languages at Jews' College, a position he occupied until 1929. At the same time, he became a lecturer in Semitic epigraphy at University College London in 1903, a lecturer in Ethiopic in 1906, and full professor and Goldsmid Lecturer in Hebrew there in 1924.
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 (1901–1906). "Hirschfeld, Hartwig". Jewish Encyclopedia. 6. p. 420. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7756-hirschfeld-hartwig.
- ↑ "Communal Announcements". 17 June 1898. https://books.google.com/books?id=YeO9D2qxuiQC&pg=PA221.
- ↑ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984. https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA429.
- ↑ "Hirschfeld, Hartwig". https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/hirschfeld-hartwig.
- ↑ Spector, Shmuel; Wigoder, Geoffrey, eds (2001). "Torun (I)". The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust. 3. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. p. 1316. ISBN 978-0-8147-9378-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=tumlOiOZvSUC&pg=PA1316.
- ↑ Brocke, Michael; Carlebach, Julius, eds (2004) (in de). Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit in den deutschen, böhmischen und großpolnischen Ländern 1781–1871. Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner. Munich: De Gruyter. p. 447. ISBN 978-3-11-023232-5. OCLC 644583327. https://books.google.com/books?id=GxCyVb2eKo0C&pg=PA447.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harris, Isidore (1906). History of Jews' College: November 11th 1855 – November 10th 1905. London: Luzac & Co.. pp. 112–116. https://archive.org/details/historyofjewscol00jewsiala/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gaster, Moses (1935). "Obituary Notices: Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld". pp. 229–230. Digital object identifier:10.1017/S0035869X0008391X. ISSN 1356-1863. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283410/page/n255.
- ↑ Kohler, George Y. (2016). "The Captivating Beauty of the Divine Spark—Breslau and the Reception of Yehuda Halevi's Sefer Kuzari (1877–1911)". Walter de Gruyter GmbH. pp. 26–34. Digital object identifier:10.1515/tra-2016-0004. ISSN 2391-7385. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/tra/14/1/article-p26.xml.
- ↑ Template:Cite EJ
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