Leopold Dukes
Leopold Dukes was a Hungarian critic of Jewish literature.Biography
Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his researches in the Bodleian library and the British Museum Dukes was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese, in which he collected the rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples.
Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabirol.
