Ernest Klein's father was a respected scholar known for his brilliance.
14 Facts About Ernest Klein
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Ernest Klein was rabbi of the Jewish Status Quo Community in Marosvasarhely and author of over 20 books on rabbinical subjects, including the following :.
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Ernest Klein was one of the daughters of Chaim Friedrich who was rabbi of the orthodox community in Turc, Ugocsa County, Kingdom of Hungary.
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At the young age of nine years, Ernest Klein was able to recite the entire Book of Psalms by heart.
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Remarkably, at the age of 15, Ernest Klein taught himself English using English language textbooks.
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Ernest Klein taught himself German during the few days journey, and by the end of the year he was the best pupil in his class.
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Ernest Klein passed his exams to become a rabbi in 1920 when he was 21 years old.
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Ernest Klein studied languages, philology and exact philosophy at the University of Budapest and the University of Vienna; he received his Doctorate of Philosophy from the latter in 1925.
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Ernest Klein was the rabbi of the Nove Zamky community, Czechoslovakia, Ersekujvar - since 1938 part of Hungary - from 1931 to 1944 when he was deported to Auschwitz and Dachau.
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Ernest Klein was freed from Dachau by US troops in 1945.
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Ernest Klein served as the community's rabbi until his death in 1983.
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Ernest Klein's most famous work is A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.
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Ernest Klein is the author of A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, an English-language etymological dictionary of Hebrew to which he devoted the last ten years of his life.
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Ernest Klein wrote an etymological dictionary of medical terms which was not published.