Moritz Steinschneider ( March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining. Events 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism. 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury... March 30, Events March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. May 2 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, later King of the Belgians... 1816, Prostějov (Prossnitz), Moravia (Czech: Morava) is the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Its historical capital is Brno. For history see Great Moravia. It is named for the Morava (or March) river around which a group of Slavs settled sometime after 500 AD. The Moravians speak various dialects of Czech. Moravia is... Moravia - 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events January January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000... 1907) was the Austrian A bibliography is an overview of (almost) all publications in some category: works of some author publications about some specific subject publications published in some specific country publications published in some specific period publications mentioned in, or relevant to, a particular work (a bibliography of this type, sometimes called a... bibliographer and Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, by Westerners. Initially it carried no negative freight. Like the term Orient itself it employs a Latin term Oriens referring simply to the rising of the sun, to imply the East in the most general sense. Unless one... Orientalist.

He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider (b. Events January 7 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America). January 15 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage February 5 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. March 8 - In Ohio the... 1782; d. March, 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events January 8 - Borax is discovered ( John Veatch). January 29 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross February 18 - The American Party ( Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. March... 1856), who was not only an expert The first page of the Talmud, in the standard Vilna edition. The core text of the Mishna and Talmud is in the center; commentaries and notes on either side surround it. The Talmud (התלמוד) is considered an authoritative record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law... Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science. The house of the elder Steinschneider was the rendezvous of a few progressive Hebraists, among whom was his brother-in-law, the physician and writer Gideon Brecher.

Education

At the age of six Moritz was sent to the public school, an unheard-of proceeding at that time with regard to a The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Jewish child; and at the age of thirteen he became the pupil of Rabbi Nahum Trebitsch, whom he followed to Nikolsburg in Events February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands February 12 – serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. At least 3000 victims March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon... 1832. The following year, in order to continue his Talmudic studies, he went to Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river in central Bohemia, it is home to approximately 1.2 million inhabitants. (It can be derived from jobs statistics, however, that additional 300,000 work there without having registered as residents... Prague, where he remained until Events January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York. February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for... 1836, attending simultaneously the lectures at the Normal School. His countryman Abraham Benisch, who also was studying in Prague at this time, inaugurated among his intimate friends a kind of Zionistic movement, which Steinschneider joined. Later, however, seeing the impracticability of the scheme, he withdrew from it completely ( Events February 21 - John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine. March 5 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution. March 30 - Anesthesia is used for... 1842).

In Events January - Book by Maria Monk claims that she was sexually exploited in a Canadian convent February 3 - United States Whig Party holds its first convention in Albany, New York. February 23 - The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. February 24 - Samuel Colt receives a patent for... 1836 Steinschneider went to Vienna to continue his studies, and, on the advice of his friend Leopold Dukes, he devoted himself especially to Oriental and Neo-Hebrew literatures, and most particularly to bibliography, which latter was destined to become the principal field of his activity. Being a Jew, Steinschneider was prevented from entering the Oriental Academy; and for the same reason he was unable even to obtain permission to make extracts from the Hebrew books and manuscripts in the Imperial Library, Vienna. In spite of these drawbacks he continued his studies in Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew with Professor Kaerle at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the university. He had at this juncture the intention of adopting the rabbinical career. In Vienna, as formerly in Prague, he earned a livelihood by giving lessons, teaching Italian among other subjects. For political reasons he was compelled to leave Vienna and decided to go to Berlin; but, being unable to obtain the necessary passport, he remained in Leipsic. At the university there he continued the study of Arabic under Professor Fleischer. At this time he began the translation of the Qur'an into Hebrew and collaborated with Franz Delitzsch in editing Aaron ben Elijah's "'Tz Chayyim" ( Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. The name is derived from the Slavic word (see Sorbian) Lipsk (settlement where the linden trees stand). It is situated at the confluence of the... Leipsic, 1841); but the rules of the Austrian censorship did not permit the publication of his name as coeditor. While in Leipsic he contributed a number of articles on Jewish and Arabic literature to Pierer's Universal Encyklopädie.

Having at length secured the necessary passport, Steinschneider in 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 19 - British East India Company captures Aden January 20 - In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. February 24 - William... 1839 proceeded to For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). Berlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4.5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and... Berlin, where he attended the university lectures of Franz Bopp (September 14, 1791 - October 23, 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive comparative work on Indo-European languages. He was born at Mainz, but in consequence of the political troubles of that time, his parents removed to Aschaffenburg, in Bavaria, where he received a liberal education at... Franz Bopp on comparative philology and the history of Oriental literatures. At the same time he made the acquaintance of Leopold Zunz (1794-1886), Jewish scholar, was born at Detmold in 1794, and died in Berlin in 1886. He was the founder of what has been termed the science of Judaism, the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Early in the 19th century he was associated with Cans... Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger (1810-1874 C.E.), German rabbi who led the foundation for Reform Judaism, where he sought to remove all nationalistic elements (particularly the “Chosen People” doctrine) from Judaism, stressing Judaism as an evolving and changing religion. Categories: Stub | Reform Judaism ... Abraham Geiger. In 1842 he returned to Prague, and in 1845 he followed Michael Sachs to Berlin; but the Orthodox tendencies of the latter caused Steinschneider to abandon definitely his intention of becoming a See Semicha for article about ordination of rabbis. Rabbi ( Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, commonly refers to the spiritual leader of a Jewish synagogue. The term means teacher, or more literally... rabbi. At this time he was employed as a reporter of the "National-Zeitung" at the sessions of the National Assembly in Frankfort is the name of several places: Frankfort, Illinois Frankfort, Indiana Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfort, Michigan Village of Frankfort, New York Town of Frankfort, New York Frankfort, Ohio Frankfort, Wisconsin Frankfort, South Africa Today, Frankfurt, the name of two cities in Germany, is known as that in English. Frankfort, the English... Frankfort and as correspondent of the "Präger Zeitung." In Events January 15 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana. February 27 - The Haiti. February 28 - A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others. May 23 - Persian Prophet The Báb announces... 1844, together with David Cassel, he drafted the "Plan der Real-Encyclopädie des Judenthums", a prospectus of which work was published in the "Literaturblatt des Orients"; but the project was not carried through Moritz Steinscheider.

On March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). There are 289 days remaining. Events 45 BC - In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 1577 - formation of... March 17, 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Monument for the leaders of the 1848 Matale rebellion, Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv.), a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 - California gold... 1848, Steinschneider, after many difficulties, succeeded in becoming a The national name Prussia (in Prussian: Prusa, German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian Prusai, Latin: Prussia or Borussia) was used by a wide variety of political factions during the 2nd millennium. At different times it has denoted a geographical region, a dukedom, a Polish province, a Polish fief, a kingdom... Prussian citizen. The same year he was charged with the preparation of the catalogue of the The word Hebrew can variously mean: The Hebrew language or Hebrew languages The ancient Hebrew people, or their descendants the Jews The New Testament book Hebrews The term Hebrew is sometimes used by certain Christian groups to distinguish the Jews in ancient times (before the birth of Jesus) from Jews... Hebrew books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ("Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana", Berlin, 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January 14 - President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devils Island penal colony opens February 11 - First British public toilet for... 1852-60), a work which was to occupy him thirteen years, in the course of which he spent four summers in This article is about the city of Oxford in England. See also other meanings, including other cities. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 ( 2001 census). It is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English... Oxford. In Events January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his Seventh of March... 1850 he received from the University of Leipsic the degree of Ph.D. In 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. Events January January 2 - Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette. January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still... 1859 he was appointed lecturer at the Veitel-Heine Ephraim'sche Lehranstalt in Berlin, where his lectures were attended by both Jewish and Christian students. From 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. Events March March 6 - Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut April April 3 - The Pony Express makes its first run. May May 1 - A chondrite type meteorite fell to earth in Muskingum County, Ohio near the town of New... 1860 to 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeaters skin May 4 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan. May 10 - Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah. May 15 - Woman... 1869 he served as representative of the Jewish community at the administration, before the tribunals of the city, of the oath More Judaico, never omitting the opportunity to protest against this remnant of medieval prejudice. From 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeaters skin May 4 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan. May 10 - Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah. May 15 - Woman... 1869 to Events January 2 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U.S. White House. January 25 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as French Minister... 1890 he was director of the Jüdische Mädchen-Schule (school for girls of the Jewish community), and in 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events March 1 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeaters skin May 4 - Naval Battle of Hakodate in Japan. May 10 - Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory, Utah. May 15 - Woman... 1869 he was appointed assistant ("Hilfsarbeiter") in the Royal Library, Berlin. From 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. Events January January 2 - Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette. January 24 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still... 1859 to 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 7 - In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place. February 14 - Llanelli Conservative Association founded. March 2 – Robert Maclean... 1882 he edited the periodical "Hebräische Bibliographie". In Events January - April January 2 - Brigham Young, is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens. March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the worlds first national park March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake. March 5 - The... 1872 and 1876 he refused calls to the Berlin Hoch schule für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums and the Landesrabbiner-Schule in Budapest, respectively, holding that the proper institutions for the cultivation of Jewish science were not the Jewish theological seminaries, but the universities.

His Field of Activity

It is a characteristic feature of Steinschneider's vast literary activity that he chose fields far removed from that of theology proper, e.g., Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of figures and numbers. Mathematical knowledge is constantly growing, through research and application, but mathematics itself is not usually considered a natural science. One reason is that... mathematics, Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. The term originally meant a love (Greek philo-) of learning and literature (Greek -logia). In the academic traditions of several nations, a wide sense of the term philology describes the study of a language together with its literature and the historical... philology, natural History is a term for information about the past. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. The term history comes from the Greek ιστορία historia, an account of... history, and See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. This article is about medical practice. Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with restoring and maintaining health. Broadly, it is the practical science of preventing and curing diseases. However, medicine often refers more specifically to... medicine, endeavoring thereby to display the part which the The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. This... Jews had taken in the general history of civilization ("Kulturgeschichte"). Thus while Zunz had laid the foundations of Deutsche Physik or Aryan Physics (literally: German Physics) was the name given to a reactionary movement in the German physics community in the early 1930s against the work of Albert Einstein, labeled Jewish Physics. Deutsche Physik is also the name of a 4-volume physics textbook by Lenard in the... Jewish science, Steinschneider completed many essential parts of the structure. He was the first to give a systematic survey of Jewish literature down to the end of the eighteenth century, and was the first also to publish catalogues of the Hebrew books and manuscripts which are found in the great public libraries of Europe. The gigantic Bodleian catalogue laid the foundation of his reputation as the greatest Jewish bibliographer. This and the catalogues of the libraries of Leiden (in English also, but now rarely, Leyden) is a city and municipality in South Holland, The Netherlands. It forms one urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp and Voorschoten. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem. Lat: 52:10N (52.16), Lon... Leyden, Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München pronunciation) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germanys third largest city with a population of about 1.261 million (as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar... Munich, This article is about the city in Germany. For other articles subjects named Hamburg, see Hamburg (disambiguation). Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediæval Hanseatic League and the fact that... Hamburg, and Berlin, as well as the twenty-one volumes of his "Hebräische Bibliographie", form an inexhaustible mine of information on all branches of Jewish history and literature. One of his most important original works is "Die Hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher: Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte des Mittelalters, Meist nach Handschriftlichen Quellen," Berlin, 1893. As the author states in his preface, the first plan of this monumental work goes back as far as 1849. Having become conscious, while writing his article on Jewish literature for Ersch and Gruber's "Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste" (1844-47), of the lack of sources on the influence of foreign works on Jewish literature, he determined to supplement the monographs of Huet, Jourdain, Wüstenfeld, and Wenrich on the history of translations by one having the Neo-Hebrew literature as its subject. In 1880 the Institut de France offered a prize for a complete bibliography of the Hebrew Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. Traditionally, translation has always been a human activity, although attempts... translations of the The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the end of the Western Roman Empire... Middle Ages; Steinschneider won it with two monographs written in Wiktionary has a definition of: French French in its formal sense and used in its capitalized form, denotes: Something from or related to France. The French city of Paris has many fine restaurants. The French language. Official language of France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and many other countries. The French people... French in 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). Events January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London. February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. March 13 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885). April 22 - Colchester... 1884 and 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed... 1886. His "Uebersetzungen" is an enlarged translation into German of these two French monographs.

Steinschneider writes with equal facility in German, Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew; his style is not popular, and is intended only "for readers who know something, and who wish to increase their knowledge"; but, curiously enough, he did not hesitate to write, together with Horwitz, a little reader for school-children, "Imre Binah" ( Events January 5 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 - The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the United States. February 10 - Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois to Great Salt Lake led by... 1846), and other elementary school-books for the Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (September 8, 1886 - September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I, but later won acclaim for his prose work. Biography Early life and education Sassoon was born in... Sassoon School of the Beni-Israel at This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. Mumbai is located on the west coast of India and is the capital of the state of Maharashtra. The... Bombay. In this same connection the fact deserves mention that in 1839 he wrote "Eine Uebersicht der Wissenschaften und Künste Welche in Stunden der Liebe Nicht Uebersehen Sind" for Saphir's "Pester Tageblatt," and in 1846 " Manna (sometimes or archaically spelled mana) is the name of the food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. Manna ceased to appear when the Israelites first harvested their crops in their new homeland. Biblical The mysterious substance which (according to the Bible) was... Manna", a volume of poems, adaptations of Hebrew poetry, which he dedicated to his fiancée, Augusta Auerbach, whom he married in 1848.

• The following is a list of the more important independent works of Steinschneider, arranged in chronological order:

• 'Etz Chayyim, Ahron ben Elias aus Nikomedien des Karäer's System der Religionsphilosophie, etc., edited together with Franz Delitzsch. Leipsic, 1841.

• Die Fremdsprachlichen Elemente im Neuhebräischen. Prague, 1845.

• Imre Binah: Spruchbuch für Jüdische Schulen, edited together with A. Horwitz. Berlin, 1847.

• Manna (adaptations of Hebrew poetry from the eleventh to the thirteenth century). Berlin, 1847.

• Jüdische Literatur, in Ersch and Gruber, "Encyc." section ii., part 27, pp. 357-376, Leipsic, 1850 (English version, by William Spottiswoode, "Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century," London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. Founded as Londinium, the capital of... London, 1857; Hebrew version, by H. Malter, "Sifrut Yisrael," Vilnius Old Town Vilnius (sometimes Vilna; Polish Wilno, Belarusian Вільня, Russian Вильнюс, see also Cities alternative names) is the capital city of Lithuania. Geographic and population data City situated in Southeastern Lithuania (54°41 north latitude and 25°17... Wilna, 1899).

• Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. Berlin, 1852-60.

• Die Schriften des Dr. Zunz. Berlin, 1857.

• Alphabetum Siracidis . . . in Integrum Restitutum et Emendatum, etc. Berlin, 1858.

• Catalogus Codicum Hebræorum Bibliothecæ Academiæ Lugduno-Batavæ (with 10 lithograph tables containing specimens from Karaite authors). Leyden, 1858.

• Bibliographisches Handbuch über die Theoretische und Praktische Literatur für Hebräische Sprachkunde. Leipsic, 1859 (with corrections and additions, ib. 1896).

• Reshit ha-Limmud, a systematic Hebrew primer for D. Sassoon's Benevolent Institution at Bombay. Berlin, 1860.

• Zur Pseudoepigraphischen Literatur, Insbesondere der Geheimen Wissenschaften des Mittelalters. Aus Hebräischen und Arabischen Quellen. Berlin, 1862.

• Alfarabi des Arabischen Philosophen Leben und Schriften, etc. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... St. Petersburg, 1869.

• Die Hebräischen Handschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München (in the "Sitzungsberichte der-Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in München"). Munich. 1875.

• Polemische und Apologetische Literatur in Arabischer Sprache Zwischen Muslimen, Christen und Juden. Leipsic, 1877.

• Catalog der Hebräischen Handschriften in der Stadtbibliothek zu Hamburg. This article is about the city in Germany. For other articles subjects named Hamburg, see Hamburg (disambiguation). Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and its principal port. The official name Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg recalls its membership in the mediæval Hanseatic League and the fact that... Hamburg, 1878.

• Die Arabischen Uebersetzungen aus dem Griechischen. Berlin, 1889-96.

• Die Hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters und die-Juden als Dolmetscher, etc. Berlin, 1893.

• Verzeichniss der Hebräischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin. Part i., Berlin, 1897; part ii., ib. 1901.

• Die Arabische Literatur der Juden. Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1902.

Besides a great number of contributions, in widely differing forms, to the works of others (see "Steinschneider Festschrift", pp. xi.-xiv.), the following independent essays of Steinschneider deserve special mention:

• "Ueber die Volksliteratur der Juden", in R. Gosche's "Archiv für Literaturgeschichte", 1871:

• "Constantinus Africanus und Seine Arabischen Quellen", in Virchow's "Archiv", vol. xxxvii.;

• "Donnolo: Pharmakologische Fragmente aus dem 10. Jahrhundert", ib.;

• "Die Toxologischen Schriften der Araber bis zum Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts," ib. lii. (also printed separately);

• "Gifte und Ihre Heilung: Eine Abhandlung des Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מיימון; Arabic: Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Kurtubi al-Israili; March 30, 1135—December 13, 1204), commonly known by his Greek name Maimonides, was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher... Moses Maimonides", ib. lvii.;

• "Gab Es eine Hebräische Kurzschrift?" in "Archiv für Stenographie", 1877 (reprint of the article "Abbre viaturen", prepared by Steinschneider for the proposed "Real-Encyclopädie des Judenthums", see above);

• "Jüdische Typographie und Jüdischer Buchhandel" (together with D. Cassel). in Ersch and Gruber, "Encyc". section ii., part 28, pp. 21-94;

• "Die Metaphysik des Aristoteles in Jüdischer Bearbeitung", in the "Zunz Jubelschrift", 1886;

• "Jehuda Mosconi", in Berliner's "Magazin", 1876;

• "Islam und Judenthum", ib. 1880;

• "Ueber Bildung und den Einfluss des Reisens auf Bildung" (two lectures delivered in the Verein Junger Kaufleute; reproduced in the Virchow-Wattenbach "Sammlung Gemeinverständlicher Wissenschaftlicher Vorträge", 1894);

• "Lapidarien: Ein Culturgeschichtlicher Versuch", in the Kohut Memorial Volume, 1896;

• "Jüdisch-Deutsche Literatur", in Neuman's "Serapeum", 1848-49;

• "Jüdisch-Deutsche Literatur und Jüdisch-Deutsch", ib. 1864, 1866, 1869;

the articles on Arabia, Arabic, Arabic literature is literature written in Arabic, or by Arabs in other languages. Contents // Categories: Stub | Arabic literature ... Arabic literature, the Anglicized/Latinized version of the Arabic word خليفة or Khalifah, is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. Selected by committee, the holder of this title claims rulership over all Muslims. The Sunnis and Shias differ as... califs, the The Quran ( Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; its literal meaning is the recitation and is often called Al Quran Al Karim: The Noble Quran, also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book... Qur'an, the Mohammedan religion, and Mohammedan sects in the second ed. (1839-43) of Pierer's "Universallexikon";

• "Letteratura Italiana dei Giudei," in "Il Vessillo Israelitico, "1877-80;

• "Letteratura Anti-giudaica in Lingua Italiana," ib. 1881-83;

• "Zur Geschichte der Uebersetzungen aus dem Indischen in's Arabische," in "Z. D. M. G." 1870-71;

• "Hebräische Drucke in Deutschland", in Ludwig Geiger's "Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland", 1886-92;

• "Abraham Judaeus-Savasorda und Ibn Esra", in Schlömilch's "Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik", 1867;

• "Abraham ibn Esra", ib. 1880.

Very interesting and highly characteristic is Steinschneider's philosophic testament in the preface to his "Arabische Literatur der Juden", in which he who laid the main foundation of the study of Jewish literature and history did not hesitate, at the age of eighty-six, to formulate an agnostic "confession de foi".

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• Morais, Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century, This article refers to the largest city of Pennsylvania. For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) Independence Hall Philadelphia (often referred to as Philly) is the sixth-largest city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, occupying all of Philadelphia County.6 As of the... Philadelphia, 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January - April January 1 - Construction of the Panama Canal begins February 1 - First edition of The Stage published February 2 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana February 13 - Thomas Edison becomes the second person... 1880;
• Keneset Yisrael (year-book), 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed... 1886;
• A. For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). Berlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4.5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and... Berliner, Catalogue of Steinschneider's Works, 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed... 1886;
• M. Kayserling, in Allg. Zeit. des Jud. March 27, 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). Events January - April January 4 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. January 5 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 - H... 1896;
• G. A. Kohut, Bibliography of the Writings of Prof. M. Steinschneider, in Festschrift zum 80sten Geburtstage Steinschneider's, 1896;
• idem, in The American Hebrew, 1896.

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By : Isidore Singer

External links

• http://www.steinschneider.com/
• Descendants of Rabbi Gabriel Steinschneider (http://www.steinschneider.com/reports/outline1.htm)

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