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Adolf Neubauer (
March 11,
1831–1907) was sublibrarian at the
Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at
Oxford University. Born at
Bittse,
Hungary, he received a thorough education in
rabbinical literature, and his earliest contributions were made to the
Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and the
Journal Asiatique (Dec., 1861).
Works
In 1865 he published a volume entitled
Meleket ha-Shir, a collection of extracts from manuscripts relating to the principles of Hebrew versification. In 1864 Neubauer was entrusted with a mission to
St. Petersburg to examine the numerous
Karaite manuscripts preserved there. As a result of this investigation he published a report, in
French, and subsequently
Aus der Petersburger Bibliothek (1866). But the work which established his reputation was
La Géographie du Talmud (1868), an account of the geographical data scattered throughout the
Talmud and early Jewish writings and relating to places in the
Land of Israel.
In 1868 Neubauer's services were secured by the
University of Oxford for the task of cataloging the Hebrew manuscripts in the
Bodleian Library. The catalog appeared in 1886, after 18 years' preparation. The volume includes more than 2,500 entries, and is accompanied by a portfolio with forty facsimiles. While engaged on this work Neubauer published other works of considerable importance. In 1875 he edited the Arabic text of the Hebrew dictionary of
Abu al-Walid (the
Book of Hebrew Roots), and in 1876 published
Jewish Interpretations of the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah, which was edited by Neubauer and translated by
Samuel Rolles Driver jointly in 1877. In the same year he contributed
Les Rabbins Français du Commencement du XIVe Siècle to
L'Histoire Littéraire de la France, though, according to the rules of the French Academy, it appeared under the name of
Renan. In 1878 Neubauer edited the
Aramaic text of the
Book of Tobit, in 1887 the volume entitled
Mediæval Jewish Chronicles (vol. ii., 1895), and in 1897, with Cowley,
The Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus.
In 1884 a readership in Rabbinic Hebrew was founded at Oxford, and Neubauer was appointed to the post, which he held for 16 years, until failing eyesight compelled his resignation in May, 1900. Neubauer's chief fame has been won as a librarian, in which capacity he enriched the Bodleian with many priceless treasures, displaying great judgment in their acquisition. He was created M.A. of Oxford in 1873, and was elected an honorary fellow of
Exeter College in 1890. In the latter year he received the honorary degree of
Ph.D. from the
University of Heidelberg and was made an honorary member of the
Real Academia de la Historia at
Madrid.
The Bodleian Catalogue
Image:Bodleian hebrew catalog.png|Title page of the Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford by Adolf Neubauer (1886).
Image:Bodleian catalog sample.png|Sample page from the Bodleian Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts (1886). Volume 1 contains approximately 900 such pages.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Canon Driver, in Jew. Chron. Dec., 1899;
- ib. March 8, 1901;
- Jewish Year Book, 1899.
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