Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein (born September 6, 1925 in Berlin ; died September 14, 1991 in Jerusalem ) was Professor of Semitic Linguistics and Biblical Philology at the Hebrew University and Director of the Lexicographical Institute and Biblical Research Institute at Bar-Ilan University .
Life
Goshen-Gottstein fled National Socialist Germany to Palestine in 1939 , studied at the Hebrew University, taught there from 1950 and became a professor in 1967. In 1988 he received the Israel Prize for Jewish Studies.
He made many contributions in the fields of biblical studies, Hebrew and Semitic linguistics. His numerous articles and books include " Medieval Hebrew syntax and Vocabulary as Influenced by Arabic ", "Introduction to the Lexicography of Modern Hebrew" ("Introduction to the Lexicography of Modern Hebrew") Hebrew ”) and" The Aleppo Codex "(in which he proved the authenticity of this Codex). He worked on several dictionaries, including "Millon ha-Ivrit ha-Hadashah" ("Dictionary of Modern Hebrew"), the first synchronous dictionary of Hebrew. He initiated - and directed for many years - the Hebrew University Bible Project .
He was married to the clinical psychologist Esther Goshen-Gottstein , the British Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein , born in 1956, is a son.
literature
- Esther Goshen-Gottstein: Recalled to life: the story of a coma . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990
- Esther Goshen-Gottstein: When death separated us: continuing to live as a widow . Translation from English Ute Boldt. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997
- Encyclopaedia Judaica , Art. "Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe"
Web links
- Literature by and about Mosheh Goshen-Goṭshṭain in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literature by and about Alon Goshen-Gottstein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli linguist, professor of Semitic linguistics and Biblical philology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1991 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |