DERENBOURG, JOSEPH (1811-1895)

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DERENBOURG, JOSEPH (1811-1895) , Franco-German orientalist. He was a considerable force in the educational revival of Jewish education in France. He made

great

GREAT

contributions to the knowledge of Saadia, and planned a complete edition of Saadia's works in Arabic and French. A large part of this

work

WORK

appeared during his lifetime. He also wrote an Essai sur l'histoire et la geographie de la Palestine (Paris, 1867). This was an

original

ORIGINAL

contribution to the history of the

Jews

and Judaism in the time of Christ, and has been much used by later writers on the subject (e.g. by Schtirer). He also published in collaboration with his son Hartwig, Opuscules et traites d'Abou-'l-Walid (with

translation

TRANSLATION

,188o); Deux Versions hebraiques du livre de Kalildh et Dimnah (1881), and a Latin

translation

TRANSLATION

of the same story under the title Joannis de

Capua

CAPUA (anc.
Casilinum
- CASILINUM (mod. Capua)
;, a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 7 M. W. by rail from the town oI Caserta. Pop. (1901) 14
CAPUA (mod. S. Maria di Capua Vetere)

directorium vitae humanae (1889) ; Commentaire de Maimonide sur la Mischnah Seder Tohorot (Berlin,1886-1891); and a second edition of S. de Sacy's Seances de Ilariri. He died on the 29th of July 1895, at Ems.
His son, HARTWIG DERENBOURG (1844-1908), was born in Paris on the 17th of June 1844. He was educated at Gottingen and

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

. Subsequently he studied Arabic at the Ecole des Langues Orientales. In 1879 he was appointed professor of Arabic, and in 1886 professor of Mahommedan Religion, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He collaborated with his father in the

great

GREAT

edition of Saadia and the edition of Abu-1 - Wad, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers. Among these are Le Diwdn de Ndbiga Dhobyani; Le Livre de Sibawaihi (2 vols., Paris, 18811889); Chrestomathie elenten`taire de l'arabe litteral (in collaboration with Spiro, 1885; 2nd ed., 1892); Ousdma ibn Mounkidh, un emir syrien (1889); Ousdma ibn Mounkidh,

preface

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

du livre du bdton (with trans., 1887); Al-Fdkhri (1895); Oumdra du Gemen (1897), a catalogue of Arabic MSS. in the Escorial (vol. i., 1884).

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