Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg (21 August 1811 – 29 July 1895) was a Franco-German orientalist.
He was born in Mainz (then French-controlled), as a youngest son of the lawyer Jacob Derenburg.
According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, "He was a considerable force in the educational revival of Jewish education in France." He made great contributions to the knowledge of Saadia, and planned a complete edition of Saadia's works in Arabic and French. A large part of this work appeared during his lifetime.
He also wrote an Essai sur l'histoire et la géographie de la Palestine (Paris, 1867). This was an original contribution to the history of the Jews and Judaism in the time of Christ, and has been much used by later writers on the subject (e.g., by Emil Schürer). He also published in collaboration with his son Hartwig Derenbourg, Opuscules et traités d'Abou-l-Walid (with translation, 1880);[1]Deux Versions hebraïques du livre de Kalilah et Dimnah (1881), and a Latin translation of the same story under the title Joannis de Capua directorium vitae humanae (1889); Commentaire de Maïmonide sur la Mischnah Seder Tohorot (Berlin, 1886-1891); and edited the second edition of Silvestre de Sacy's Séances de Hariri (Paris, Hachette, 1853). In 1871, Derenbourg annotated and published in Paris an important medieval work on Hebrew grammar, taken from a manuscript retrieved in Yemen, and which he titled Manuel du Lecteur (Readers Manual).[2] The manuscript is one of the sole remaining copies of a Hebrew variant of the work known as Maḥberet ha-Tiğān (Manual of the Codices), outlining the rules of Hebrew grammar.[3] He died in 1895 at Bad Ems, Hesse-Nassau.
^Ibn Djanah 1880.
^Joseph Derenbourg, Manuel du Lecteur, d'un Auteur Inconnu, Imprimerie Nationale: Paris 1871. The work is also described by David Solomon Sassoon, in Ohel Dawid - Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London (vol. 2), Oxford University Press: London 1932, section 964
^Yosef Yuval Tobi, Yahadut Teman (Yemenite Jewry), vol. 1, The Association for Society and Culture, Documentation and Research of Yemenite Jews: Netanya 2017, p. 11
JosephDerenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg (21 August 1811 – 29 July 1895) was a Franco-German orientalist. He was born in Mainz (then French-controlled)...
Derenbourg is a surname derived from Derenburg. Notable people with the surname include: Hartwig Derenbourg (1844–1908), French orientalist Joseph Derenbourg...
Semitic languages as a pupil of Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Salomon Ulmann and his father, orientalist JosephDerenbourg. He furthered his education at Göttingen...
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in the first edition of Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. In 1885, JosephDerenbourg and his son Hartwig published an interpretation of 61 inscriptions...
(1804–1872), President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein, born in Bad Ems JosephDerenbourg (1811–1895), orientalist, died in Bad Ems Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)...
published correspondence between Abraham Geiger and a close friend, JosephDerenbourg. Bayme, S. (1997). Understanding Jewish History: Texts and Commentaries...
That Samuel the Small forgot it after a year has been conjectured by JosephDerenbourg to imply that, at this time, the minim imprecation was not originally...
Herzfeld, ibid. iii. 227; idem, Geschichte des Volkes Israel, ii. 253 JosephDerenbourg, Essai, pp. 116, 117, 149, 463 Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, i. 148 et...
2022-01-17. "אוצר החכמה". tablet.otzar.org. Retrieved 2022-01-17. Derenbourg, Joseph; Derenbourg, Hartwig (1896). Version arabe d'Isaïe de r. Saadia ben Iosef...
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widely spread in almost all European languages. It was edited by JosephDerenbourg (Paris, 1887). John of Capua also translated Maimonides' Dietary and...
quasi-entirety. The commentary on the Book of Isaiah was edited by JosephDerenbourg and, more recently, translated and edited, along with the comments...
upon the consecrated ground of the Temple. Brüll's Jahrb. viii. 9; JosephDerenbourg, Essai, p. 58; Ewald, History of Israel, v. 293, note 1, and 299,...
Himyaritic, Sabaean. This volume, first published in 1889, was edited by JosephDerenbourg. It covers the Arabian Peninsula, particularly the Himyarite and Sabean...
Merveilleuse", Academy, Vol. XXXIII (4 Feb 1888), p. 79. "Review of JosephDerenbourg, A Medieval Version of Kalilah and Dimnar", Academy, Vol. XXXIII (7...
as a poem, i.e. in metric form. This was first proposed in 1868 by JosephDerenbourg. The inscription, in poetic form, was translated by Charles Cutler...
1882 which enabled him to study Arabic and Hebrew at Paris under JosephDerenbourg. After teaching in Posen for a few years, Hirschfeld immigrated to...
Berlin in 1885 by Abraham Berliner, alongside Moses Levi Ehrenreich, JosephDerenbourg, David Günzburg, Solomon Joachim Halberstam, Abraham Harkavy, Marcus...
period, later a professor Hartwig Derenbourg (1844–1908), professor of Arabic and Semitic languages JosephDerenbourg (1811–1895), arabisant, étudiant...
the École des Hautes Études. He was associated with JosephDerenbourg for many years in Derenbourg's research into Hebrew and oriental literature. Lambert...
Juden, iv. (see index); Ewald, Gesch. d. Volkes Israel, 7 367 et seq.; Derenbourg, Essai, pp. 329-331, 395 et seq., 418 et seq.; Hamburger, R. B. T. ii...
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