Joseph Zedner

Joseph Zedner

Joseph Zedner (born at Gross-Glogau, February 101804; died at Berlin October 101871) was a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian.

After completing hiseducation, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders was his pupil. In 1832 he became a tutor in the family of the book-seller A. Asher in Berlin, and later engaged in the book-trade himself; but being unsuccessful he accepted in 1845 a position as librarian of the Hebrew department of the British Museum in London. There he remained until 1869, when ill health compelled him to resign and to retire to Berlin, where he spent the last two years of his life. Shortly after his appointment, the British Museum acquired the library of the bibliophile Heimann J. Michael of Hamburg, which Zedner catalogued.

Works

Zedner was the author of the following works:

*"Auswahl Historischer Stücke aus Hebräischen Schriftstellern vom Zweiten Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, mit Vocalisiertem Texte, Deutscher Uebersetzung und Anmerkungen" (Berlin, 1840)
*"Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Museum" (London, 1867)
*"Ein Fragment aus dem Letzten Gesange von Reineke Fuchs" (Berlin, 1871), a poetical satire on Napoleon III.

He contributed to Asher's edition of the Travels of Benjamin of Tudela (London, 1840), and wrote poems on two collections of portraits ("Ehret die Frauen," and "Edelsteine und Perlen," Berlin, 1836-45). While in London, he published a second edition of Ibn Ezra's commentary on the "Book of Esther", to which he wrote an introduction entitled "Wa-Yosef Abraham."

References

*Moritz Steinschneider, in Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 1871, No. 44, abstracts of which are given in Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1871, pp. 116-118, and in Generalanzeiger für die Gesammten Interessen des Judentums, Berlin, Feb. 22, 1904

External links

* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=77&letter=Z Source]


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