Adolf Neubauer

Adolf Neubauer (11 March 1831 – 6 April 1907) was a Hungarian-born sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University.

At this time, he published articles about the situation of the city's Jewish population, which aroused the anger of some leaders of that community, with whom he became involved in a prolonged controversy.

Starting in 1865, he lived in England and in 1868 his services were secured by the University of Oxford for the task of cataloging the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.

In 1878, Neubauer edited the Aramaic text of the Book of Tobit; in 1887, the volume entitled Mediæval Jewish Chronicles (vol.

In 1892, together with Stern, he published a German translation of a medieval chronicle of the First Crusade: Hebräische Berichte über die Judenverfolgungen Während der Kreuzzüge.

In 1884, a readership in Rabbinic Hebrew was founded at Oxford, and Neubauer was appointed to the post, which he held for 16 years until failing eyesight compelled his resignation in May 1900.

[2] Neubauer's chief fame has been won as a librarian, in which capacity he enriched the Bodleian with many priceless treasures, displaying great judgment in their acquisition.

The Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford by Neubauer (1886). Volume 1 contains approximately 900 such pages.