Moritz Steinschneider

Moritz Steinschneider

male, deceased (1907)
Moritz Steinschneider (March 30, 1816, Prostějov (Prossnitz), Moravia – 1907) was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his ear...
Lilly Steinschneider

Lilly Steinschneider

female, deceased (1975)
Lilly Steinschneider (b. 1890, Wiener Neustadt - 1975) was an Austrian female pilot.
David Cassel

David Cassel

male, deceased (1893)
David Cassel was a German historian and Jewish theologian. Gross-Glogau was the city of large Jewish community where he graduated from the...
Hermann Strack

Hermann Strack

male, deceased (1922)
Hermann Leberecht Strack was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848. Since 1877 he was assistant professor of...
Johann Christoph Wolf

Johann Christoph Wolf

male, deceased (1739)
Johann Christoph Wolf (born at Wernigerode, February 211683; died at Hamburg, July 251739) was a German Christian Hebraist and polyhistor. He...
Petrus Alphonsi

Petrus Alphonsi

male, deceased (1110)
Petrus Alphonsi (also spelled "Alfonsi", "Peter"; born Moses Sepharadi) (1062-1110) was a Jewish Spanish writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who...

Abraham Abigdor

male, 659 years old
Abraham Abigdor (born in Provence, probably at Arles, in 1350) was a Jewish physician, philosopher, and translator. He should not be confounded...

Samuel ben Hofni

male, deceased (1034)
Samuel ben Hofni was the last gaon of Sura. His father was a Talmudic scholar and chief judge ("ab bet din," probably of Fez), one of whose...
Faraj ben Salim

Faraj ben Salim

male
Faraj ben-Sālim. The translation is followed, between the same covers, by "De Ex-positionibus Vocabulorum seu Synonimorum Simplicis Medicinæ", wh...

Samuel ben Jacob Jam'A

male
Samuel ben Jacob Jam'a was rabbi of the North-African community of Kabez (קאבס) which flourished in the 12th century. He was on intimate terms with...