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Leopold Dukes. Ehrensaeulen und Denksteine…, 1st lifetime ed., 1837 in German and Hebrew - Leopold Dukes. Ehrensaeulen und Denksteine…, 1st lifetime ed., 1837 in German and Hebrew Ehrensaeulen und Denksteine zu einem kuenftigen Pantheon hebraeischer Dichter und Dichtungen: ein Versuch mit hebraeischen Beylagen und deutschen Uebersetzungen Gedruckt bey A. Strauss sel. Witwe, Wien, 1837, VI, 109 pp., hard cover, size: 20 x 12.5 cm. Covers detached, spine is missing, first 6 pages detached; some foxing stains to most of pages Leopold Dukes (Hungarian: Dukes Lipót; 17 January 1810, Pozsony – 3 August 1891, Vienna) was a Hungarian critic of Jewish literature. Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his researches in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable Hebrew libraries in the world) Dukes was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples.[1] Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabiro