Quotes:Chwolson, Daniel Avraamovich

Zirkoff, Boris

Chwol’son (Khvolson), Daniel Avraamovich (1819-1911). *Book of Nabathean Agriculture. See Vol. VIII of the present Series for complete data regarding this ancient Chaldean Scripture.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 365

Chwolsohn (Khvolsohn), Daniel Avraamovich (1819-1911). Renowned Russian-Jewish Orientalist and Semitolog, son of a poor Jewish family. Raised in his own religion, he became well versed in the Bible, the Talmud and its mediaeval commentaries. Learned by own efforts Russian, German and French. After attending Univ. of Breslau, obtained degree of Ph.D. from Univ. of Leipzig, for his thesis: Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus. Returning to Russia, continued same line of research, resulting in the publication of a larger work under same title (St. Petersburg: Imperial Acad. of Sciences, 1856. 2 vols. 8vo.), which secured him wide recognition among scholars. From 1855 on, held chair of Hebrew, Syrian and Chaldean literature at Univ. of St. Petersburg: taught, 1858-83, Hebrew language and Biblical archaeology at the Greek-Orthodox Theological Academy, and Hebrew at the Roman Catholic Academy, both at St. Petersburg. Translated into Russian about two-thirds of the Old Testament for the St. Petersburg Theol. Acad. Apart from a large number of technical papers in various scientific journals, wrote the following works, which introduced among scholars heretofore unknown MSS., and new sources of information: Über die Überreste der altbabylonischen Literatur in Arabischen Übersetzungen, in the Mémoires des savants étrangers, tome VIII (St. Petersburg: Imp. Acad. of Sc., 1859). This essay appeared in Russian transl. in the Russkiy Vestnik for 1859, and was also publ. by Eggers as a separate pamphlet (195 pp.). It includes the 423 so-called Book of Nabathean Agriculture, regarding which information will be found on pp. 22 of the present volume.—Corpus inscriptionum Hebraicarum, St. Petersburg, 1884; Russ. tr., 1884.—Das letzte Passamahl Christi und der Tag seines Todes, in Mem. of the Acad. of Sc., St. Petersburg, 1892. It is concerned with the relations of the Sadducees and Pharisees to Jesus, and shows that the latter could not have been interested in the execution of Jesus, while the former could have been.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, pp. 422-423