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Solomon Pappenheim (1740–1814) was Hebrew linguist and poet. Born in Zuelz (Germany), Pappenheim served as a dayyan in Breslau till his death. He first became known as a linguist in his three-part Yeri'ot Shelomo (1784, 1811, and 1831), a study of synonyms. Although an ardent advocate of the Haskalah, Pappenheim opposed religious reforms and David Friedlaender's proposal (1812) that education be entrusted to the government. His contribution to modern Hebrew literature is his small book, Aggadat Arba Kosot ("Legend of Four Glasses"; Berlin, 1790 and often reprinted), a work influenced by family tragedies and by the Night Thoughts by the English poet Edward Young. Pappenheim's book, which begins with sorrow and ends with exultation and faith, is written in poetic prose. The poet, on the one hand, writes in a classical, rationalist vein from the standpoint of the structure and spirit of the work, and he preaches and believes in reason and morality. On the other hand, he is influenced by the sentimentalism which had begun to affect contemporary literature, which cried out against fate and yearned for nature and night.
[ח'ל'ק' א']: שערים-נוספים. להוראת שפת עבר העתיקה לבתי ספר ולמתלמדים. על יסוד שטח חדשה ונקלה. בדקדוק מתאים עם חקי חכמת החנוך. דפוס יצחק עללענדמאן, גאטא. על הכריכה משמאל: לשון למודים; עברית וגרמנית.
[חלק ב]: שערים-נוספים. דפוס יצחק עללענדמאן, גאטא. (תרפ"ה). לשון למודים... Ausgabe durch... Beigaben erweitert עם השער ושנת הדפוס של חלק א. שנת הדפוס (תרפ"ה) בשער-הנוסף. עיין Katalog der Judaica und Hebraica, Stadtbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, I, 1932, S. 76, כולל שיעורים בדקדוק, פרקי-קריאה ממחברים שונים ליקוטים מספרי דקדוק, כללי הנגינות, פתגמים, ועוד. עברית וגרמנית.