JULIUS

See also:

• JULIUS FURST (1805-1873)

FURST (1805-1873)  , German Orientalist, was born of Jewish parents at Zerkowo in Posen, on the 12th of May 1805 . He studied philosophy and philology at Berlin, and oriental literature at Posen, Breslau and Halle . In 1857 he was appointed to a lectureship at the university of Leipzig, and he was promoted to a professorship in 1864, which he held until his death at Leipzig on the 9th of February 1873 . Among his writings may be mentioned Lehrgebdude der aramaischen Idiome (Leipzig, 1835); Librorum sacrorum Veteris Testamenti concordantiae Hebraicee atqueChaldaicae(Leipzig,1837-1840) ; Hebrdisches and chalddisches Worterbuch (1851, English translation by S . Davidson 1867); Kultur and Literaturgeschichte der Juden in Asien (1849) . Furst also edited a valuable Bibliotheca Judaica (Leipzig, 1849-1863), and was the author of some other works of minor importance . From 1840 to 1851 he was editor of Der Orient, a journal devoted to the language, literature, history and antiquities of the Jews .