Strack, Hermann Lebrecht

Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1872), Lie. Theol. (do., 1877), D.D. (do., 1884), Protestant theologian; b. in Berlin, May 6, 1848; studied at Berlin and Leipzig, 1865-70; taught in Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium, 1872-73; worked in the Imperial Library, St. Petersburg, Ru ia, 1873-76 (see below); became profe or extraordinary of theology at Berlin, 1877; spent six weeks with Abr. Harkavy, on request of the Ru ian Government, at Tschufutkale (in the Crimea), examining Firkowitsch's third great collection of manuscripts. (For his monumental labors upon the Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, see below.) " One of the tasks of his life is to make the Christians acquainted with the history and literature of the Jews, and to promote Christianity amongst the Jews." He edited Max Strack's Aus Siid und Ost, Reisefruchte aus drei Weltteilen, Leipzig, 1885-86, 2 parts; and edits " Nathanael, Zeitschrift der berliner Gesellschaft zur Befbrderung des Chris lent hums unter der Juden," Berlin, 1885 sqq.; and is the author of Vollstundiges Wbrterbuch zu Xenophon's Anabasis, Leipzig, 1871, 4th ed. 1884; Prolegomena critic a in V.T. Hebraicum, 1873; Katalog der he bra is chen Bibelhandschriften der kaiser lichen of fent lichen Bibliothek in St. Petersburg (with A. Harkavy), St. Petersburg u. Leipzig, 1875; Prophet arum posteriorum codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, 1876 (edited at an expense of three years' labor, photolithographed and published at the expense of the Emperor Alexander II. of Ru ia. This codex is dated A.D. 916; the text has the "Babylonian" or " A yrian " system of vocalization, whose peculiarities consist in having signs of a different shape to represent the.vowels, and in putting the vowels in all cases above the letters. The text occupies four hundred and forty-nine folio pages, and is surrounded with Ma or etic notes. The Codex occupies the same place in the determination of text for the portion of the Old Testament which it covers, as the Codex Sinaiticus does for the whole New Testament); A. Firkowitsch und seine Entdeckungen, Leipzig, 1876; Die Dikduke hateamim des Ahron ben Moscheh ben Ascher und andere alte grammatisch-mas so ret is che Lehrstucke (with S. Baer), 1879; Vollstdndiges Wbrterbuch zu Xenophon's Kyropadie 1881; Pirke Aboth, Die Spriiche der Voter, Karlsruhe u. Leipzig, 1882; Lehrbuch der neuhebr'dischen Sprache u. Litleralur (with C. Siegfried) 1882 (various parts of the Mishnah in preparation); Hebraische Grammatik, 1883, 2d ed. 1885 (English trans. New York and London, 1886).