Adolf Neubauer archive

Adolf Neubauer archive.

כותרת בעברית: ארכיון אברהם נויבאואר.

ARC. 4* 1595, Adolf Neubauer archive, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

Adolf Neubauer Archive

Fonds Record

Nagybana (Ungary) 1832-London 1907. Orientalist, author, librarian and bibliographer. Studied in Prague and Munich, from 1857 till 1868 live in Paris, except for visits to various libraries to examine manuscripts, and a period in Jerusalem, where he held a post at the Austrian consulate. In 1861-2 he began his scholarly career by publishing in the Journal Asiatique (vols. 18-20) extracts and translations from a tenth-century lexical work of David ben Abraham, of Fez, whose manuscripts he had found in a Karaite synagogue in Jerusalem. In 1868 settled in England, becoming librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. His Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, was published in 3 volums, 1886-1906. Between 1901-1906 lived in Vienna with his nephew Adolf Büchler.

The archive was purchased in 1984 from Dr. Lionel Kochan, Oxford, together with the the archives of Adolf Büchler and Jakob Eduard Polak.

The archive is in English, French, German and Hebrew

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