SAALSCHUTZ, JOSEPH LEVIN, was born in Konigsburg, March 15, t8ot. Being the rabbi of the place, his father gave him a thoroughly good Hebrew education, sent him to the gymnasium, and aftenvards to the university, where he especially distinguished himself in the department of Hebrew archxology, and published in 1824, when only twenty-three years of age, an elaborate treatise on the Urim and Thllownim, for which he obtained the degree of _Doctor of Philosophy. Twelve months later he published Von der Form der Hebr. Poesie nebst enter Abhandlung iiber die Ainslie der Hebraer, Konigsberg 1825. The first treatise on poetry he republished, with two additional treatises, entitled Form and Spirit of the Biblical Hebrew Bully, ibid. x853. Ile then went to Berlin, where he was engaged in the Jewish public school (1825-29), and prosecuted his archmological researches. In 1829 the Jews in Vienna invited him to become teacher of religion, which office he held for five years, when he received an invitation from the com munity of his native place to become their pastor (1835). Hem he more than ever spent 211 the
time which he could snatch from his professional duties to the investigation of Biblical archxology, and published the following treatises in this de partment, which are so indispensable to the student of the Bible :-1. Forschungen Gebiete der heb ,-;iisch-akyptirchen A rchliologie, 3 vols., Konigsberg 1838-49 ; 2. Das Illosaische Recht, 2 VO1S., 1E46-48, 2d ed., Berlin 1863 ; 3. Archiiologie der Hebriier, 2 vols., ibid. 1856 ; 4. Die Ehe nach biblischer Vorstellung, ibid. 1858. So great was his reputa tion as a scholar, that he was the first Jew who was appointed as Privatdocent in philosophy at the University of Konigsberg, in 1849, and afterwards became honorary professor. Saalschiitz died Au gust 23, 1863.—C. D. G.