Tirsch, Leopold

Tirsch, Leopold a German scholar, apparently of Jewish extraction, who lived in the 18th century, is the author of Dissertatio de Characterum Antiquacruni apud Hebrceos ante Esdram Usu (Prague, 1759): —Fundamenta Linguae Sanctae (ibid. 1766): Hand-Lexikon der jüdisch teutschen Sprache, etc. (ibid. 173): —Dissertatio de Tabernaculorum Feriis, prout olim a Judaeis gestce sunt, hodieque aguntur (ibid. 1773): —Dissertatio an Lingua Hebraica Omnium Antiuissina Primaque Habenda, etc. (ibid. 1773): — Grammatica Hebr.; accedit Syllabues Vocum Irregul. S.S. Odine Alphab. (ibid. 1784). See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 432; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handb s.v. (B. P.)