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Lot #    11393
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 1:05:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Aus Egypten.
Title (Hebrew)    ממצרים
Author    [Only Ed.] Ludwig August Frankl
City    Vienna
Publisher    Joseph Holtzworth
Publication Date    1862
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [15], 212; [9], 47 pp., 193:124 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A good copy loose in contemporary boards, split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Ludwig August Frankl-Hochwart (1810–1894), Austrian poet, secretary of the Vienna Jewish community, and founder of the Laemel School in Jerusalem. Born in Chrast, Bohemia, Frankl was one of the first Jews to attend a Bohemian secondary school. He also received a sound Jewish education under his relative, Zacharias Frankel. Although he studied medicine at Vienna and Padua, he devoted himself mainly to literature. The patriotic flavor of Frankl's first collection of ballads, Das Habsburgerlied (1832), brought him a reward from Emperor Francis I. It was followed by Morgenlaendische Sagen (1834), a volume of poems on Jewish themes, and by the epic Christoforo Colombo (1836), for which he was made an honorary citizen of Genoa, the explorer's birthplace. In 1838 Frankl was appointed secretary and archivist of the Vienna Jewish community. The post enabled him to publish various works of Jewish interest, including a history of the Jews in Vienna (1853), but he really made his name as editor, from 1842, of the Sonntagsblaetter, which brought him into the circle of Austria's literary elite. In later years he was to publish studies of such of his new acquaintances as the dramatist Franz Grillparzer and the poet Nikolaus Lenau, but he also encouraged new writers, notably Moritz Hartmann and Leopold Kompert. His use of the elegant Sonntagsblaetter in support of the 1848 Revolution led to the paper's eventual suppression. During the Revolution Frankl served as an officer in the students' legion and achieved fame with his revolutionary lyric Die Universitaet, the first uncensored Austrian publication, which was circulated in half-a-million copies and was set to music no less than 28 different times: Frankl later edited the works of the revolutionary writer Anastasius Gruen (1877), and their correspondence was published by Frankl's son, Lothar. As the representative of Elisa Herz, Frankl went to Jerusalem in 1856 and, in memory of her father, founded the Laemel School, which offered Jewish children a secular, as well as a religious, education. This aroused violent opposition on the part of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi community, whose rabbinate placed Frankl under the ban of excommunication. He described his experiences in Erez Israel in Nach Jerusalem (2 vols., 1858–60), which gives a valuable picture of the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem in the mid-19th century. The book was translated into Hebrew and other languages, and appeared in English as The Jews in the East (1859). A third volume, Nach Aegypten, appeared in 1860. Other works of Jewish interest are Frankl's Elegien (1842), Rachel (1842), Libanon (1855), and Ahnenbilder (1864). In 1876 he founded the Vienna Jewish Institute for the Blind, his philanthropic endeavors being rewarded with ennoblement as Ritter von Frankl-Hochwart. His memoirs appeared posthumously in 1910.

Added t.p.: Aus Egypten. Von Ludwig August Frankl. In's Ebraeische uebersetzt von A. B. Gottlober. Der Primator. Von Ludwig August Frankl. In's Ebraeische uebersetzt und mit der Biografie des Dichters von Dr. Max Letteris... hebraeischer Nachbildung von Dr. Max Letteris...
          
Paragraph 2    . הוא ספר שלישי ממסעות החכם... ר' אברהם אלעזר המכונה: דאקטאר לודוויג אויגוסט פראנקל, אשר שני ספריו הראשונים כוללים את מסעיו: "ירושלימה!" נעתק ללשון קדשנו מאת אברהם בער בן-חיים הכהן גאטטלאבער. עם המליצה המספרת: נשיא העדה [צ"ל: בישראל], מאת דאקטאר לודוויג אויגוסט פראנקל. בהעתקת שפת עבר מאת... מו"ה מאיר הלוי לעטטעריס...

עמ' [12-5]: הקדמת המעתיק בגרמנית ובעברית. שם נאמר: וכבר נדפס ממנו הפרק הראשון בס' כוכבי יצחק היוצא מת"י [מתחת יד]... מ[ענדל] ע. שטערן >מחברת כו< [וויען 1861, עמ' 94-93], ושני פרקים הראשונים נדפסו בעלי מ"ע [מכתב-עתי] "הכרמל" היוצא בווילנא מת"י... ר' שמואל יוסף פין שנה ראשונה נו' 42-41 [כב, כט אייר תרכ"א, עמ' 332-330 ,339-338]. [9], 47 עמ', עם שער מיוחד: נשיא בישראל; שיר מספר נוראות ונצורות מימי קדם ונחלק לשבע מחלקות, מאת לודוויג אויגוסט פראנקל. נעתק באין מעצור על ידי מאיר הלוי לעטעריס... שער-נוסף: נשיא בישראל. Der Primator von Ludw. Aug. Frankl. In בסוף הספר כתב מה"ל [מאיר הלוי לעטעריס]: שמעתי כי עוד העתקות אחרות משיר זה תצאנה לאור בקרוב, לכן מצאתי... להודיע בקהל רב כי פעלי זה יצא ראשונה [עי' למעלה, ספרו "ראש העדה".].

          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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