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Weil, Dr. Gotthold : AUS EINEM BRIEFE JOHN LOCKES

Berlin: Soncino-Gesellschaft,, ?

1920s. Paper wrappers, 4to. , From series "Sonderdruck aus den Soncino-Blattern" (p. 199-208) . In German and Hebrew. Illustrated. Gotthold Weill was an "Orientalist. Born in Berlin, Weil began his academic career at the Berlin State Library in 1906, and in 1918 became director of its Oriental department, which he had founded. Teaching post-biblical Jewish history and literature at Berlin University from 1912, he was appointed professor in 1920. In 1931 he was appointed professor of Semitic languages at the University of Frankfurt, in succession to Josef Horovitz . Weil was dismissed by the Nazis with the rest of his Jewish colleagues in 1934. From 1935 to 1946 he was head of the National and University Library in Jerusalem and also held the chair of Turkish studies at The Hebrew University (to 1952) . Weil's main field was Arabic studies, but he had wider Jewish interests as well and was on the board of various Jewish cultural institutions in Germany, and a governor of The Hebrew University. World War I directed his interest to Turkish studies...In 1953 he published Maimonides Responsum ueber die Lebensdauer (text with German translation) . On the occasion of his 70th birthday a Festschrift was issued by the Institute for Oriental Studies of The Hebrew University. " (Kopf, EJ, 2007) . Covers chipped and sunned. Otherwise good condition. (BIB-7-14)

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