See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

LEOPOLD See also:

• DUKES
• LEOPOLD DUKES (1810-1891)

DUKES (1810-1891)  , Hungarian critic of Jewish literature . He spent about twenty years in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and from his researches in the Bodleian library and the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

• LIBRARIES

libraries in the See also:

• WORLD

world) See also:

• DUKES
• DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

Dukes was able to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete the See also:

• WORK

work of See also:

• ZUNZ, LEOPOLD (1794-1886)

Zunz (q.v.) . The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic See also:

• PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples . Dukes made many contributions to See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, but his best work was connected with the See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval Hebrew See also:

• POETRY

poetry, especially See also:

• IBN

Ibn Gabirol . (I .