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Lot #    9837
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 1:57:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ozer Divrei Leshon ha-Kodesh
Title (Hebrew)    אוצר דברי לשון הקדש
Author    [Ladino] William Gottlieb Schauffler
City    Constantinople
Publisher    A. Gorgil
Publication Date    1855
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 440 pp., 208:134 mm., usual age and damp staining, old hand and stamps on title. A good copy bound in contemporary half leather boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hebrew-Ladino dictionary. William Gottlieb Schauffler, missionary, born in Stuttgart, Germany, 22 August, 1798; died in New York city, 27 January, 1883. He emigrated to Odessa, Russia, with his parents in 1804, and adopted his father's trade, that of a maker of wooden musical instruments. In 1820 the preaching of Ignatius Lindl, a Roman Catholic priest of evangelical views, turned his thoughts toward religion, and he resolved to devote his life to mission work. After serving as an independent missionary in Turkey in 1826 he made his way to the United States, with no property but his clothes, his flute, and one dollar in money, and entered Andover theological seminary, where he supported himself for a time by turning wooden bed-posts. He was graduated in 1830, ordained on 14 November, 1831, and returned to Turkey under the auspices of the American board. He married an American lady soon afterward, and resided chiefly in Constantinople during his missionary service of forty-four years, laboring principally among the Jews and Armenians. In 1843 he was instrumental in persuading Sir Stratford Canning, the British minister, to interfere in behalf of members of the latter race that had been persecuted by the Armenian patriarch. For his efforts in behalf of the German colony in Constantinople he received a decoration from the king of Prussia. From 1839 till 1842 he resided in Vienna engaged in translating the Scriptures into Hebrew-Spanish. The work was published in that city in two quarto volumes. The University of Halle gave him the degree of D. D. in 1867, and Princeton that of LL.D. in 1879. Dr. Schauffler was a scholar of fine attainments, being "able to speak ten languages and read as many more."
          
Paragraph 2    או דיקסייונארייו די לה לינגואה סאנטה קון לה דיקלאראסייון די קאדה ביירבו אין לה לינגואה ספרדית [לאדינו], פור בילייאס[!] גוטליב שאבפליר
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0180476; Appletons Encyclopedia
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Ladino
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica