Adolf Neubauer

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Adolf Neubauer

Adolf Neubauer (born March 7, 1832 in Kotešová ; † April 6, 1907 in London ) was a Hebraist . He was a librarian and editor in Oxford, and wrote Mediaeval Jewish Chronicles, Edition ; Catalog of the Heb. Mss. In the Bodleian Library .

Life

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

In 1857 Neubauer moved to Paris , where, apart from occasional trips and a stay in Jerusalem, he spent the next eleven years. In Paris he met the orientalists Ernest Renan , Salomon Munk and Joseph Derenbourg , published texts by various Karaite authors and continued his critical studies of ancient Palestine. In 1863 he was awarded the prize of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for his publication La geographie du Talmud .

In 1868 Neubauer began cataloging all the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library . His first volume comprised 2602 manuscripts, expanded to include an atlas with facsimile tables. In doing so, he made an important contribution to Hebrew palaeography . In 1873 he became sub-prefect of the Bodleian Library. He quickly recognized the value of the manuscripts from the Cairo geniza and incorporated some of them into the library's holdings.

From 1884 Neubauer held lectures at Oxford University .

Neubauer retired around 1900 because he was becoming increasingly blind. He moved to Vienna , but returned to England in 1906, where he died soon after.

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SURNAME Neubauer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hebraist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Kotešová
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1907
Place of death London