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FURST, JULIUS (1805-1873)

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FURST, See also:JULIUS (1805-1873) , See also:German Orientalist, was See also:born of Jewish parents at Zerkowo in See also:Posen, on the 12th of May 1805. He studied See also:philosophy and See also:philology at See also:Berlin, and See also:oriental literature at Posen, See also:Breslau and See also:Halle. In 1857 he was appointed to a lectureship at the university of See also:Leipzig, and he was promoted to a professorship in 1864, which he held until his See also:death at Leipzig on the 9th of See also:February 1873. Among his writings may be mentioned Lehrgebdude der aramaischen Idiome (Leipzig, 1835); Librorum sacrorum Veteris Testamenti concordantiae Hebraicee atqueChaldaicae(Leipzig,1837-1840) ; Hebrdisches and chalddisches Worterbuch (1851, See also:English See also:translation by S. See also:Davidson 1867); Kultur and Literaturgeschichte der Juden in Asien (1849). Furst also edited a valuable Bibliotheca Judaica (Leipzig, 1849-1863), and was the author of some other See also:works of See also:minor importance. From 1840 to 1851 he was editor of Der Orient, a See also:journal devoted to the See also:language, literature, See also:history and antiquities of the See also:Jews.

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