Chajim H. Steinthal. Sprachwissenschaftler und Philosoph im 19. Jahrhundert / Chajim H. Steinthal. Linguist and Philosopher in the 19th Century

Chajim H. Steinthal (1823 - 1899) was a philosophical linguist and teacher of the Science of Judaism . Among other things, together with Moritz Lazarus, he founded the discipline of Voelkerpsychologie ( psychology of nations ). He taught mainly at the University of Berlin and the Hochschule (later Lehranstalt) fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. This volume contains the results of an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Leopold Zunz Centre for the Study of European Judaism (LEUCOREA Foundation, Wittenberg), the Synagogue Museum Groebzig and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. It presents papers in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, Jewish studies and history, as well as an inventory of Steinthal’s papers in Jerusalem.