 Max Seligsohn

Max Seligsohn (April 13, 1865 – April 11,1923 Manhattan) was an American Orientalist, born in Imperial Russia.Having received his rabbinical training at Slutsk, government ("guberniya") of Minsk, he went in 1888 to New York City, where he studied modern languages till 1894, in which year he went to Paris to study Oriental languages, especially Semitic studies (""élève diplômé"" of the "École des Langues Orientales", 1897, and of the "École des Hautes Études", 1900).