Moses Elkan

Moses Elkan
BornTulchin, Podolsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died(1822-01-31)January 31, 1822
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire

Moses Elkan (Hebrew: משה אלחנן, romanized: Moshe Elḥanan; died January 31, 1822) was a Russian physician and Hebrew scholar.

Elkan's works include a hymn in Hebrew and French addressed to Czar Alexander I (Munich, 1811).[1] He also published a manual in German on the history of the Jewish people, accompanied by a geographical sketch of Palestine, intended for use in Jewish schools. It was later translated into Russian by Z. Minor (Moscow, 1880).

Publications

  • Hymne adressée a Sa Majesté l'Empereur Alexander I (in Hebrew and French). Munich: Jos. Sidler. 1811.[2]
  • Leitfaden beim Unterricht in der Geschichte der Israeliten von den frühesten Zeiten bis auf unsere Tage (in German). Minden & Leipzig: F. Essmann. 1839.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Elkan, Moses". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 140.

  1. ^ Zeitlin, William (1890). Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 77.
  2. ^ Estreicher, Karol (1872). Bibliografia polska (in Polish). Vol. 1. Kraków: Uniw. Jagiellońskiego. p. 465.
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