Moshe Schwabe

Moshe (Max) Schwabe (born July 20, 1889 in Halle (Saale) , † September 10, 1956 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli classical philologist and epigraphist .

Life

After studying in Halle and Berlin, Schwabe received his doctorate in Berlin in 1914 with a thesis on the late antique speaker Libanios . Like many of his fellow students, he was strongly influenced by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . In the aftermath of the First World War , Schwabe came to Lithuania . In Kaunas he was the rector of the Jewish high school and from 1920 to 1922 head of the department for education in the Ministry of Jewish Affairs. However, he emigrated to Palestine , where he worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since it was founded in 1925 . In 1939 he became head of the Institute for Classical Studies there, and from 1950 to 1952 he was rector of the university. Schwabe was also active in the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society and co-editor of the Bulletin and the Israel Exploration Journal . The Greek epigraphy developed more and more into a focus of his work . So he edited the numerous Jewish-Greek inscriptions that were found in Bet She'arim . A corpus of the Latin and Greek inscriptions of Palestine remained unfinished, but the chapters on Caesarea Maritima and Tiberias were largely prepared.

Works (in selection)

• Analecta Libaniana. Sittenfeld, Berlin 1918.
• Beth Sheʿarim . Vol. 2: The Greek Inscriptions . The Israel Exploration Society, Massada Press, Jerusalem 1967 (completed posthumously and edited by Baruch Lifshitz)

literature

• Obituary. In Israel Exploration Journal , 6, 1956, pp. 273-275.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bibliographia Judaica , Vol. 3 (1988)