Meyer Fürth

Meyer Elkan Fürth (Hebrew: מאיר בן אלחנן פירדא, romanized: Meir ben Elḥanan Fiurda) was a German writer and teacher, who belonged to the school of the Me'assefim. He annotated a mathematical work by Abraham Joseph Menz that had appeared in Berlin in 1775, and wrote a number of Hebrew and German works.

Publications

• Anfangsgründe der Algebra. Leipzig. 1806–1808.
• Entwurf zur Selbstverständniss eines immerwährenden Kalenders (in German and Yiddish). Dessau: C. Schlieder. 1810.
• Parpera'ot la-ḥokhmah. Dessau: C. Schlieder. 1811. A commentary on the Sefer ibronot, with German translation.
• Shelemut ve-tsurat ha-nefesh. Dessau: C. Schlieder. 1810. Moses Mendelssohn's Phädon, with a commentary in refutation of Mendelssohn's views.
• Kevod Elohim. Dessau. 1812. A polemic against the Reform movement.
• Gründliches Rechenbuch für die Jugend, besonders aber zum Gebrauche derjenigen, die Kaufleute oder Banquiers werden wollen. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Carl Cnobloch. 1816.
• Gründliches Rechenbuch für die Jugend, besonders aber zum Gebrauche derjenigen, die Kaufleute oder Banquiers werden wollen. Vol. 2. Leipzig: Carl Cnobloch. 1816.
• Dibre yosher. Dessau. 1818. A polemic against Joseph Wolf and Gotthold Salomon's book Der Charakter des Judenthums, and against the latter's Selimas Stunden der Weihe, in Judæo-German.
• Freimüthige Gedanken. Dessau. 1818. A portion of the preceding work in German.
• Yir'at shamayim. Dessau. 1820–1821. A commentary to Maimonides' Hilkhot kiddush ha-ḥodesh, together with Scriptural comments and novellæ.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Brody, H. (1904). "Fürth, Meyer b. Elhanan". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 538.