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See also:MORITZ See also:STEINSCHNEIDER (1816-1907) , Jewish bibliographer, was See also:born in See also:Moravia in 1816 . He was the most accomplished bibliographer in the See also:realm of See also:Hebrew literature . His greatest See also:work was his See also:Catalogue of the Hebrew Collection of the Bodleian Library, See also:Oxford ,(1852—186o) . In this masterly work he settled many questions as to the locality, date and author-See also:ship of See also:early printed books, and provided a vast See also:mass of See also:biographical materials . His Jewish Literature (published in See also:German in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber in 185o, in See also:English in 1857, and in Hebrew in 1899) is a See also:complete survey of its subject . See also:Steinschneider prepared many other catalogues (See also:Leiden, See also:Munich, See also:Hamburg and See also:Berlin) . He wrote much on Arabic literature, and was the author of See also:bibliographies on a See also:great variety of subjects . Among them may be named bibliographies of Jewish mathematicians and travellers . His most extensive work after his Bodleian Catalogue was his See also:treatise on Hebrew See also:translations in the See also:middle ages (See also:Die hebraischen Ubersetzungen See also:des Nfittelalters, 2 vols., 1893) . Much of his work appeared in his periodical Hebraische Bibliographic (1859—1882) . He died in Berlin in 1907 . (I .
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