Education
He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider.
theologian university professor
He was the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider.
Since 1877 he was assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semitic languages at the University of Berlin. In 1885 Strack became the editor of Nathanael. In the beginning of his career the Prussian government sent Strack to Saint St. Petersburg to examine the Bible manuscripts there.
On this occasion he examined also the antiquities of the Firkovich collection, which he declared to be forgeries.
This claim was found to be untrue: the Firkovich collection is closely related to Cairo Geniza material found by Solomon Schechter.
