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Nordheimer, Isaac : A CRITICAL GRAMMAR OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE

New York, Wiley And Putnam; Philadelphia, H. Perkins, 1838-1841

Later Cloth. 8vo. XXIV, 288; XIX, 360 pages. 24cm. First edition. Two volumes bound together. Singerman 0656. With large fold out ‘Table of the Inflections of Verbs’. “The Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language, published in two volumes at New York in 1838 and 1841 by Isaac Nordheimer, is considered by William Chomsky to be ‘the most thorough and most scientific Hebrew grammar published in America’ during the nineteenth century. Indeed, in comparison with other grammars of the period with respect both to form and to content, Nordheimer's work is certainly superior. … Isaac Nordheimer was born in 1809 at Memelsdorf, Bavaria. Receiving a traditional Hebraic education in his youth, he subsequently studied at the Rabbinical school in Pressburg, Hungary, then under the direction of the noted rabbi and talmudist Moses Sofer. Besides his extensive Jewish education, Nordheimer also received a good secular education, studying in the gymnasium and then in the University of Wurzburg and finally completing his studies at the University of Munich, where in 1834 he received his Ph. D. In Oriental Languages. Due especially to the political turmoil engulfing Europe at the time, Nordheimer immigrated to America, arriving in New York in 1835, where he was almost immediately offered a teaching post as professor of Arabic, Syriac and other Oriental Languages and acting professor of Hebrew at the University of the City of New York. He began teaching there in1836 and soon after also became attached to the Union Theological Seminary of New York, where he continued his teaching and publishing until his untimely death at the age of thirty-three in1842. … Nordheimer's grammar, then, is not of really significant value as a critical, scientific, original piece of work. Nor is it of great value as a pedagogical work. Its significance lies in the fact that it transferred to American soil and in English garb the first-and in some ways the finest-fruits of the rising European Hebraic tradition. ” (American Jewish Archives Journal, 1980; Jack Fellman) . Attractively bound in cloth with gilt title. Subjects: Hebrew language - Grammar. Original endpages and first title page worn at edges, light foxing throughout, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (AMR-44-31)

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