MORITZ

See also:

• MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER (1816-1907)

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