Lazarus Goldschmidt

Lazarus Goldschmidt (born at Plungė, December 17, 1871; died in England, April 18, 1950) was a German Jewish writer and translator. He translated the Babylonian Talmud into German, and was the first to translate the entire Babylonian Talmud.

He received his rabbinical education at the Talmudic school in Slobodki, near Kovno. In 1888 he went to Germany, and in 1890 entered the Berlin University, where, under the guidance of Professors Dillmann and Schrader, he devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, especially Ethiopic.

By 1903, Goldschmidt, living at the time in Berlin, had published the following works:

* ''“Das Buch Henoch”'' retranslated from the Ethiopic into Hebrew, and edited with introduction, notes, and explanations (Berlin, 1892); "''Bibliotheca Aethiopica''," a list and description of all the known Ethiopic prints (Leipsic, 1893) * ''“Das Buch der Schöpfung'' (ספר יצירה)''”'' critical text, translation notes, etc. (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1894); * ''“Baraita de-Ma'ase Bereshit”'' the story of the Creation, ascribed to Arzelai bar Bargelai (Strasburg, 1894; this supposed Midrash is an Aramaic translation of the Ethiopic "Hexaemeron" of Pseudo-Epiphanias, edited by Trumpp in Ethiopic with a German translation, Munich, 1882, and the name of the supposed author is an anagram of Goldschmidt's Hebrew name, Eliezer ben Gabriel); * ''“Vita do Abba Daniel''” Ethiopic text, published, translated, and annotated in collaboration with F. M. E. Pereira (Lisbon, 1897); "''Die Aethiopischen Handschriften der-Stadtbibliothek zu Frankfurt a. M.''" (Berlin, 1897). Provided by Wikipedia