Max Leopold Margolis

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Max Leopold Margolis (born October 15, 1866 in Merkinė (Meretz / Merech), Vilnius district , † April 2, 1932 in Philadelphia ) was an American philologist .

The son of Rabbi Isaac Margolis attended elementary school in his hometown and was educated by his father. Beginning in 1885, he visited the Leibniz-Gymnasium in Berlin and from autumn 1889, the Columbia University in New York City, where he Semitic Studies at Richard Gottheil , Latin for Harry Thurston Peck (1856-1914) and philosophy at Nicholas Murray Butler and James McKeen Cattell studied . In 1890 he obtained his Masters and in the following year his Ph.D. He then learned Semitic languages and was Felix Adler's secretary .

From 1892 to 1897 he was a teacher and later an assistant professor of Hebrew and Biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. In 1897 he became assistant professor for Semitic languages ​​in the University of California , in 1898 ao professor and from 1902 he was acting head of the Semitic department. In California he married Evelyn Kate Aronson (1878-1959), with whom he had three children. In 1905 he was called back to the Hebrew Union College as a professor of biblical exegesis, but where he came into conflict with the president on Zionist issues. In 1907/08 he visited European libraries.

The Jewish Publication Society of America had decided to publish a new translation of the Hebrew Bible into English, and Max was editor-in-chief in Philadelphia from 1908 to 1917 . He then received the Chair of Biblical Philology at Dropsie College of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies .

Publications

  • The Columbia College MS. of Megillah ; New York, 1892
  • Hebrew Accidence ; 1893
  • Notes on Semitic Grammar Parts 1–3; In: Hebraica ( American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures ), 1894, 1896, 1902
  • The Theology of the Old Prayer Book ; In: Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis 1897
  • The Theological Aspect of Reformed Judaism ; Baltimore, 1904.
  • Max L. Margolis: Textbook of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud . Grammar, Chrestomathy and Dictionary (=  Clavis linguarum semiticarum . No. III ). CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1910 ( uni-halle.de [accessed on March 4, 2016]).
  • The Story of Bible Translations ; Philadelphia, 1917.
  • The Hebrew Scriptures in the Making ; Philadelphia, 1922.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 467.
  2. ^ Entry at jewishencyclopedia.com
  3. ↑ http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1933_1934_5_SpecialArticles.pdf
  4. ↑ http://aronoff.com/family/i0023914.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.magnumarchive.com/c/encyclopedia-americana-volume-18/Margolis.html
personal data
SURNAME Margolis, Max Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Merkinė
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1932
Place of death Philadelphia