Harkavy, A

(Hebrew name Abraham Elias, in ordinary life Albert), Hebrew rabbi; b. in St. Petersburg, Ru ia, Oct. 29, 1839; educated in the Wilna Rabbinical School (1858-63), and at the University of St. Petersburg (1863-67); pursued studies at Berlin (under Rbdiger and Diimichen) and at Paris (under Oppert) 1868- 70; graduated a rabbi at Wilna, 1863; magister (1868) and doctor (1872) of the history of the Orient; was unanimously chosen a docent in the Oriental faculty at St. Petersburg in 1870, after delivering test lectures upon the history of the Semitic nations, but prevented by the efforts of a personal enemy from receiving the position is a member of the Imperial Ru ian State Council, knight of several orders, librarian of the Imperial Public Library (St. Petersburg), honorary member of the Hellenic Philological Syllogos of Constantinople, member of the Society of the Friends of Natural Science and Anthropology of Moscow, corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Tiflis, and member of the Imperial Ru ian Archaeological Society, etc. He is a moderate conservative in religious matters. His literary activity in Hebrew and Ru ian dates from 1860. Besides different articles in learned periodicals, he has written in Ru ian "The Jews and the Slavonic Languages," St. Petersburg, 1867; " Information concerning the Mu ulman Writers upon Slavs and Ru ians," 1870, appendix to same 1871; " The Historical Importance of the Moabite Inscription of King Mesa," 1871; " The Original Home of the Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites," 1872; " Information concerning the Arabs under Thule," 1873; " Information concerning Jewish Writers upon the Chararen and their Kingdom," 1874; " Catalogue of the Samaritan MSS. in the Imperial Public Library," 1874- 75; " The Origin of some Geographical Names on the Taurian Peninsula," 1876; " The Information of Abraham of Kertsh on the Emba y of St. Wladimir to the Chararen," 1876; "Biography of Peter Lerch," 1885; "Biography of Caetan Ro owicz, Profe or in St. Petersburg University," 1885. In French, Les mots egyptiens de la Bible, 1870; Sur un pa age des " Prairies d'or " de Macoudi concern ant I"his to ire ancienne des Slaves, 1876. In German, Catalog der hebrdischen Bibelhandschriften der kaiser lichen bffentlichen Blbliothek (with H. L. Strack), 1875; Altjiidische Denkmdler in der Krimm, 1876; Mea ef NiddacJiim, Collection zur hebrdischen Literatur, i. 1878-79, ii. 1880 Studien und Mittheilungen aus der kaiser lichen of fent lichen Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg, i. 1879, iii. 1880, iv. 1885; Mittheilungen aus Handschriften der kaiser lichen of fent lichen Bibliothek, Fragment von der arabis chen u. hebrdischen Vorrede Saadiah's zum?njX 13D (in Stade's Zt. f. Wi ensch. d. A. T., 1881-82); Aus dem arch do log is chen Congre , 1882; Neugefundene hebrdische Bibelhandschriften, 1884; Chadaschim gam Feschanim (in Beitrdge aus Handschriften zur hebrdischen Literatur, 1885).