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Max Letteris

Authors · literary scholar · orientalist · translator

Austrian scholar (1800–1871)

About Max Letteris

Meïr Halevi (Max) Letteris (Yiddish: מאיר הלוי לעטעריס; 13 September 1800 – 19 May 1871) was an Austrian poet, editor, and translator of the Galician Haskala. He translated into Hebrew works by Virgil, Lucian, Jean Racine, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Ludwig August von Frankl, and others.

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Known for
[תנ״ך אין אידיש], Gebeden voor Israelietische vrouwen, Megillat Esther
Born
1800-08-30
Died
1871-05-19

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