ISAAK MARKUS

JOST (1793–1860)  , Jewish historical writer, was born on the 22nd of February 1793 at Bernburg, and studied at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin . In Berlin he began to teach, and in 1835 received the appointment of upper master in the Jewish commercial school (called the Philanthropin) at Frankfort-on-the-Main . Here he remained until his death, on the 22nd of November 1860 . The work by which he is chiefly known is Geschichte der Israeliten seit der Zeit der Maccabaer, in 9 vols . (1820-1829), which was afterwards supplemented by Neuere Geschichte der Israeliten von 1815–1845 (1846–1847), and Geschichte des Judenthums and seiner Sekten (1857–1859) . He also published an abridgment under the title Allgemeine Geschichte des israelitischen Volkes (1831–1832), and an edition of the Mishna with a German translation and notes (6 vols., 1832–1834) . The Israelitische Annalen were edited by him from 1839 to 1841, and he contributed extensively to periodicals . See Zirndorf, Isaak Markus Jost and seine Freunde (Cincinnati, 1886) .