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Apr 29, 1861 Putnok, Borsod Abaúj Zemplén County, Hungary Died on 08 Mar 1936 (aged 74)
Hungarian historian
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About Lajos Blau
- Lajos Blau (German: Ludwig Blau; April 29, 1861 – March 8, 1936) was a Hungarian scholar and publicist born at Putnok, Hungary.
- Blau was educated at three different yeshivot, among them that of Presburg.
- In 1880-1888, he was a student at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (Landesrabbinerschule, now the Budapest University of Jewish Studies).
- At the same time, he studied philosophy and Orientalia at the Budapest University, received there the degree of Ph.D.
- cum laude in 1887, and the rabbinical diploma at the Seminary in 1888. In 1887, Blau became a teacher of the Talmud at the Landesrabbinerschule, in 1888 a substitute, and in 1889 professor of the Bible, the languages of Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Talmud.
- Beginning in 1899, he became a librarian and tutor in Jewish history.
- In 1902, Blau became president of the folk-lore section of the Jewish-Hungarian Literary Society, and editor of the Magyar Zsido Szemle.
- He died in 1936.
