David Kohn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Kohn

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 31-May-1838

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1915

Profession: writer, editor, Judaic scholar

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

David Kohn (1838–1915) was a Russian archaeologist and Hebrew writer.
He was born at Odessa and received a rabbinic education, but at the age of fourteen he took up the study of medieval literature and modern languages, and soon afterward, history and archaeology.
Some of his early writings included essays on fossil animals, the life of Rabbi Solomon Bennet, the Messianic movement, and the origin of Hasidism.
He also contributed to "Ha-Shiloa?." Kohn was editor of the A?iasaf edition of Abraham ibn Ezra's "Diwan" (1894), as well as of Jacob Emden's autobiography and various other important works.
He was also the first to attack Heinrich Graetz's criticism of the Biblical text, and to defend the Masorah.
Besides the works already mentioned, he published: Me??ere ?ohelet ben Dawid, a historico-critical introduction to the Book of Ecclesiastes; Masoret Seyag le-Mi?ra, in defense of the Masorah against the hypercriticism of modern exegetes (1880); and Or we-?oshek.