Lazarus Goldschmidt (1871-1950), scholar
Lazarus Goldschmidt (1871-1950) was a Lithuanian-born German Jewish scholar. Born and raised in Lithuania, went to Germany in 1888 to study at the University of Berlin with August Dillmann and Eberhard Schrader. Specialized in Oriental languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic...), translated 1 Enoch into Hebrew (1892), and the Quran (1916) and the whole Babylonian Talmud into German (1930-1936). To escape racial persecution, moved to England in 1933.
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- Scholars
- Lithuanian
- Lithuanian Scholars
- German
- German Scholars
- Jewish
- Jewish Scholars
- Born in the 1870s
- Died in the 1950s
- Enochic Studies
- Enochic Studies--1850s
- Enochic Studies--Germany
- Early Jewish Studies
- Early Jewish Studies--1930s
- Early Jewish Studies--Germany
- Early Islamic Studies
- Early Islamic Studies--1910s
- Early Islamic Studies--Germany