The New International Encyclopædia/Luzzatto, Samuel David

LUZZATTO, lo͞o-tsä′tō̇, Samuel David (1800-65). A Hebrew scholar and writer on Jewish history. He was born in Triest, received an academic education, and was professor of biblical exegesis in the Rabbinical School at Padua from its foundation in 1829 till his death. He was regarded as one of the chief restorers of Hebrew literature. His published works include: a Hebrew Grammar; an Aramaic Version of Onkelos (1830); Notes on Isaiah (1834); Dialogues on the Cabala, the Zohar, and the Antiquity of the Vowel Points and Accents of the Bible (1852); and Hebrew Notes on the Pentateuch, with a Hebrew Commentary (1850). His writings on Jewish history are also of great merit.