Israel Burstein
Israel Burstein , also Israel Bursztyn , (born 1891 in Nadwórna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1951 in Israel ) was an Austro-Israeli Hebraist .
Life
Israel Burstein studied Hebrew Studies at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate with a thesis on the Hebrew language. The revised dissertation Complete Grammar of the Old and New Hebrew Language was very critically reviewed by Walter Baumgartner and Eduard König .
After Austria's annexation in 1938, Burstein had to emigrate to Palestine in 1939 . There he worked in Wa'ad HaLaschon , the committee for the modernization of the Hebrew language. His main work Torat ha-hegeh: ba-lashon ha-ʻIvrit kolelet gam torat ha-niḳud deals with Hebrew phonology. He further developed the Hebrew number system and developed a new form of Hebrew shorthand .
Fonts (selection)
- Israel Bursztyn: Complete grammar of the ancient and modern Hebrew languages . Vienna: Gerold & Co., 1929
literature
- Burstein, Israel. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Vol. 4, Col. 1532
- Burstein, Israel. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 190 (No. 1435) ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Israel Bursztyn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Israel Bursztyn , at WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review , in: Theologische Literaturzeitung , Vol. 55 (1930), 20, pp. 461–462
- ↑ Review , in: Theologisches Literaturblatt. Leipzig: Dörffling & Franke. Vol. 51 (1930), 5, p. 67
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burstein, Israel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bursztyn, Israel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-Israeli Hebrew |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nadwórna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1951 |
| Place of death | Israel |