NEUWIEDEL, ELIAS:
Russian grammarian; born at Neustadt-Sugind (Alexandrowo) 1821; died at Warsaw Sept. 16, 1886. He studied Talmud at the yeshibah of Volozhin, and was teacher of Hebrew and modern languages at Rossieny, government of Kovno, and Warsaw. At the latter place he published "More Sefat 'Ibrit," a Hebrew grammar after the method of Ollendorf (1874), and "Ab le-Banim," didactic discourses for the young (1882). Neuwiedel was a grandson of Benjamin-Benish Neustädter.
Bibliography:
- H. N. Steinschneider, 'Ir Wilna, p. 176;
- Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels. p. 254.
