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Solomon Asher Birnbaum, also ''Salomo Birnbaum'' (December 24, 1891 in Vienna – December 28, 1989 in Toronto) was a Yiddish linguist and Hebrew paleographer.〔"(Birnbaum, Salomo (Solomon Asher Birnbaum) )" (2002). In: ''Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft, 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert''. Ed. Österreichische Nationalbiblithek, Vienna. Vol. 1, A-I. Munich: Saur. p. 126.〕〔"Birnbaum, Solomon Asher" (2007). ''Encyclopaedia Judaica''. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. p. 716.〕 ==Biography== Birnbaum was the oldest son of Nathan Birnbaum and Rosa Korngut.〔 His father was an Austrian Jew of Hungarian-Jewish descent. Solomon Birnbaum served in World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and then studied and attained a doctorate from the University of Würzburg,〔 specializing in oriental languages.〔 From 1922 to 1933, he filled the first worldwide Yiddish chair at the University of Hamburg.〔 After the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) in Germany, Birnbaum emigrated to Great Britain with his wife, Irene Grünwald,〔"(Birnbaum, Jakob )" (2002). In: ''Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft, 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert''. Ed. Österreichische Nationalbiblithek, Vienna. Vol. 1, A-I. Munich: Saur. p. 125.〕 and his children, in 1933.〔 From 1936 to 1957, Birnbaum was a lecturer on Hebrew paleography and epigraphy at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He taught Yiddish at the same time at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, from 1939 to 1958.〔 During World War II, Birnbaum worked in the postal censorship for the British authorities. In 1970, he immigrated to Toronto, Canada.〔 Solomon Birnbaum is the father of Jacob Birnbaum, who, after his emigration to New York in 1963, helped to found the United States movement on behalf of Soviet Jewry.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Solomon Birnbaum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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