Background
He was born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia (now Nysa, Poland).
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Emanuel Deutsch
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He also mastered the English language and studied English literature.
Career
His education was begun by an uncle, to whose inspiration he owed his interest in oriental languages and literature. On reaching his sixteenth year, he began his studies at the University of Berlin, paying special attention to theology and the Talmud. In 1855 Deutsch was appointed assistant in the library of the British Museum.
The monument of his official work in the British Museum is to be found in the Phoenician Inscriptions, edited by William Sandys Wright Vaux, to whom Deutsch rendered assistance.
In October 1867 his article on The Talmud, published in the Quarterly Review, made him known, creating a great interest in the Talmud in Britain, including admirers such as George Eliot. The article was translated into French, German, Russian, Swedish, Dutch and Danish, and reprinted by the American Jewish Publication Society, Special Series Number.
3 (Philadelphia, 1897). Deutsch was an important influence on George Eliot"s Jewish characters and their ideas in her last novel Daniel Deronda.
In 1869-1870, Deutsch was a special correspondent for The Times during the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican and wrote letters on its deliberations.
He died at Alexandria on 12 May 1873.
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Islam