ABRAHAM GEIGER: LEBEN UND LEBENSWERK
Berlin; G. Reimer, 1910. Item #33750
Later Cloth. 4to. VI, 509 pages. 27 cm. First edition. 'Abraham Geiger: His Life and Work'. With frontispiece portrait of Abraham Geiger. A biography of Abraham Geiger, written by his son Ludwig Geiger (1848–1919) , “German literary historian; a fervent adherent of the symbiosis of Judaism and Germanness. Son of Abraham Geiger, he studied philology and history in Heidelberg, Goettingen, and Berlin and concluded his academic studies in 1873 with a dissertation, presented to Leopold von Ranke on the attitude of Greek and Roman authors to Judaism and Jews. In 1880 he was appointed extraordinary professor of the history of literature at Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin. Later he additionally became a lecturer at the Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Geiger was a versatile scholar, editor, and translator. His major contributions were to Renaissance, Humanism, and Reformation studies, German-Jewish history, and research on Goethe and other writers of the 19th century. ” 2008 EJ This volume also includes contributions from Ismar Elbogen, Gottlieb Klein, Immanuel Low, Felix Perles, Sam. Posnanski, Moritz Stern, and Hermann und Heynemann Vogelstein. Includes extensive bibliography of the writings of Abraham Geiger (pages 414-470) , and includes subject indexes at rear. Subjects: Rabbinismus Geiger, Abraham, 1810-1874. Geiger, Abraham – Bibliography. Geschichte 1810-1874. Institutional marks on outer edges, title page, and endpages. Later cloth previously reinforced with tape along binding. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (GER-44-17).
Price: $100.00