Ignaz Bernstein

Ignaz Bernstein (also: Ignatz Bernstein , Ignats Bernshteyn ; Ignatz Israel Bernstein , according to another source: Ignatz Isaak Bernstein ; born January 30, 1836 in Winnitza , Podolia , today Ukraine ; † January 23, 1909 in Brussels ) was a Russian-Jewish folklorist and linguists .

Life

Ignaz Bernstein was born into a banking family, studied with Moses Landau in Prague , married the daughter of Meir Edlen von Mises from Lemberg in 1856 and immediately afterwards settled in Warsaw , where he became known as one of the wealthiest philanthropists (including co-founder of Warsaw Synagogue Library).

His wealth gave him the opportunity to devote his entire life to Jewish folklore: for more than 35 years he collected among the people - especially in Warsaw - and in books - which he bought in all languages on a large scale worldwide - newspapers, magazines, etc. Jewish proverbs, idioms and folk wisdom from Russia , Poland and Galicia and as a result brought out his epoch-making collection of Jewish proverbs and sayings with Yiddish text and German translation as well as an addendum. in addition: Erotica un rustica

He bequeathed his library of 7,000 books and manuscripts to the Cracow Academy of Sciences and its folkloric collections to the Jewish community in Warsaw.

Works

Jewish proverbs and sayings, collected and explained by Ignaz Bernstein , Warsaw 1908
Erotica un rustica , Warsaw 1908/1909

literature

Samuel Orgelbrand , Encycklopedia Powszechna , Vol. II., Warsaw 1898, p. Xxx
Catalog of the Bernstein library, 2 vols., 1900
Salomon Wininger , Great Jewish National Biography , Volume I, 1925, p. Xxx
Salman Reisen , Leksikon , 1926, p. Xxx
Jewish Lexicon , Volume I, Berlin 1927, p. Xxx
John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 88.
Bernstein, Ignaz. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 2: Bend Bins. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-22682-9 , pp. 338-340.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Kept separately for educational reasons
↑ Yidishe shprikhverter and types of speech ... ; almost 4,000 proverbs and sayings, published in Polish translation in the same year. Forerunner versions, which were later distributed as separate prints in small editions, had already been published anonymously by Bernstein in 1888 in Spektors Hausfreund , so that the 1908 edition is often referred to as the "2nd edition".
↑ Oysgelasene un rough shprikhverter / Erotica un rustica , 1908 f .; 227 proverbs comprehensive
↑ Catalog des livres parémiologiques, composant la bibliothèque de Ignace Bernstein , 1900

personal data
SURNAME	Bernstein, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bernstein, Ignatz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian Jewish folklorist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Winnitza
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1909
Place of death	Brussels

[1] Kept separately for educational reasons

[2] Yidishe shprikhverter and types of speech ... ; almost 4,000 proverbs and sayings, published in Polish translation in the same year. Forerunner versions, which were later distributed as separate prints in small editions, had already been published anonymously by Bernstein in 1888 in Spektors Hausfreund , so that the 1908 edition is often referred to as the "2nd edition".

[3] Oysgelasene un rough shprikhverter / Erotica un rustica , 1908 f .; 227 proverbs comprehensive

[4] Catalog des livres parémiologiques, composant la bibliothèque de Ignace Bernstein , 1900