Fels, Christian Lebrecht

Fels, Christian Lebrecht a Jewish convert of Prague, was born in 1640, and died at Hamburg in 1719. He was professor of Hebrew at various universities and gymnasia, and wrote, מראה דר ָהיהודים, i.e., Hodegus Judaeorum (Leipsic, 1703): — Brevis et Perspicua via ad Linguam Sanctam (Sondershausen, 1697): — Brevis et Perspicua via ad Accentuationem (Wittenberg, 1700). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:278 sq.; Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch, s.v.; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1:1009; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Roi, Die Evangelische Christenheit und die Juden (Carlsruhe, 1884), 1:116 sq. (B.P.)