GINSBURG, CHRISTIAN DAVID Hebrew scholar, was born on Dec. 25, 1831, at Warsaw where he was educated. Shortly after conversion in 1846, he came to England, where he published a translation of the Song of Songs, with a commentary (1857), a translation of Ecclesiastes (1861) and treatises on the Karaites (1862), on the Essenes (1864) and on the Kabbala (1865). From the appearance in 1867 of Jacob ben Chajim's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible, Hebrew and English, with notices, and the Massoreth Ha-Massoreth of Elias Levita, in Hebrew, with translation and commentary, Dr. Ginsburg ranked as an eminent Hebrew scholar. In 1870 he was appointed to the committee for the revision of the English version of the Old Testament. His life-work culminated in the publication (3 vols.) of the Massorah (188o-86), followed by the Masoretico critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (1894), and the elaborate introduction (1897). His later works include : Facsimiles of Man uscripts of the Hebrew Bible (1897-98), and The Text of the Hebrew Bible in Abbreviations (1903), in addition to a criti cal treatise "on the relationship of the so-called Codex Babyloni cus of A.D. 916 to the Eastern Recension of the Hebrew Text" (1899) . Ginsburg died on March 7, 1914.