About Mendel Bresslau
Lived 1786 – 1829 (aged 42–43). Mendel Bresslau was a bookseller and author.
Mendel ben Ḥayyim Judah Bresslau (; 1760–1829) was a Silesian Hebraist, writer, and bookseller.
Along with fellow Maskil Isaac Abraham Euchel, he founded language in Königsberg the Me'assefim society for the promotion of the Hebrew. He published numerous articles in the organization's periodical, Ha-Me'assef ('The Collector').
Among other works, Bresslau was the author of an allegorical ethical dialogue, Yaldut u-baḥarut ('Childhood and Youth'; Berlin, 1786). He also wrote Gelilot Eretz Israel, a geography of the Land of Israel with two maps (Breslau, 1819), and Reshit ha-keriah (Breslau, 1834), a Hebrew reader and grammar with the phonetic method.
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Who was Mendel Bresslau?
silesian Hebraist (1760–1829)
When was Mendel Bresslau born?
Mendel Bresslau was born in 1786.
When did Mendel Bresslau die?
Mendel Bresslau died in 1829.
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Mendel Bresslau was a bookseller and author.
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