About Lipót Dukes
Lived 1810 – 1891 (aged 81). Lipót Dukes was a Hungarian literary historian, literary critic, hebraist, theologian and writer.
Leopold Dukes (; 17 January 1810, Pozsony – 3 August 1891, Vienna) was a Hungarian critic of Jewish literature.
Biography Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his researches in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable Hebrew libraries in the world) Dukes was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples.
Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabirol.
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Who was Lipót Dukes?
Hungarian critic (1810–1891)
When was Lipót Dukes born?
Lipót Dukes was born on 17 January 1810 in Bratislava.
When did Lipót Dukes die?
Lipót Dukes died on 3 August 1891 in Vienna.
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Lipót Dukes was a literary historian, literary critic, hebraist, theologian and writer.
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Lipót Dukes was Hungarian.
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