Nathan Porges
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Nathan Porges (December 21, 1848 – August 27, 1924) was a Bohemian German rabbi.
Porges was born in Prossnitz (Prostějov) in Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire.
He was educated in his native town Prossnitz, at the gymnasium of Olmütz (Olomouc), and at the University (Ph.D. 1869) and the Jewish Theological Seminary (rabbi 1869) of Breslau (Wrocław). He became successively rabbi at Nakel (Nakło nad Notecią) (1875), Mannheim (1879), Pilsen (1880), Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) (1882), and Leipzig; he began officiating in the last city in 1888.
Porges died in Würzburg.
[edit] Literary works
Porges wrote many articles, essays, and critiques for periodicals including:
- Revue des Etudes Juives
- Monatsschrift für Gesch. und Wissenschaft des Judenthums
- Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie
- Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen
He was the author of:
- Über die Verbalstammbildung in den Semitischen Sprachen, Vienna, 1875
- Bibelkunde und Babelfunde, Leipzig, 1903
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
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