11 Facts About Salomon Buber

Salomon Buber was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works.

Salomon Buber is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering research surrounding those texts.

Salomon Buber was born at Lemberg on February 2,1827.

At twenty years of age, Salomon Buber married and entered commercial pursuits.

Salomon Buber rose rapidly to become Handelskammerrath, and auditor of the Austro-Hungarian Bank and of the Galician savings-bank.

Salomon Buber was president of the Geschaftshalle, vice-president of the free kitchen, and honorary member of a working men's union.

Salomon Buber's work is distinguished by thoroughness, and reveals his synthetic ability as well as the vast extent of his reading.

The only serious opposition to the views encountered by Salomon Buber has been in regard to his theory concerning the Tanchuma.

Salomon Buber's first work was a biography of the grammarian Elias Levita, published at Leipzig in 1856.

Salomon Buber corresponded on learned subjects with many well-known Jewish scholars.

Salomon Buber was the grandfather and teacher of Martin Buber, who was raised partly at his grandfather's home in Lemberg.