Zedner, Joseph

Zedner, Joseph for a long time custodian at the British Museum, in London, was born at Gross-Glosgau in 1804, and died in Berlin, October 10, 1871. He wrote, Ueber den Wortton in der hebr. Sprache (Berlin, 1817): — Auswahl historischer Stucke aus hebr. Schriftstellern vonm II. Jahrhunderts bis auf die Gegenwart (Heb. and Germ. ibid. 1840): — ויוסŠ אברהם, or Abraham ben-Ezra's Commentary on the Book of Esther after another Version (Lond. 1850): — Catalogue of the Hebrew Books in the Library of the British Afuseunm (ibid. 1867). He also contributed to the Ha-Maskir for 1859 and 1861. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:546. (B.P.)