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Comrades), on the precepts; (5) "Safah Bururah " (A Clear Language), a treatise on religious philosophy " "Iggeret (6) Sukkah, on the question whether it is permitted to light fire in the booth. This question,
which gave birth to many polemics, is decided by Joseph in the negative. Moses Bagi: Turkish scholar; lived at Constantinople in the beginning of the fifteenth century. relationship between Moses and Joseph is difficult to establish. Fiirst believes that he was the father of Joseph, and was consequently called
The degree of
Moses ben Judah; while Gottlober identifies him with Moses ben Benjamin, the author of many liturgical poems, two of which are inserted in the Karaite prayer-book (Hi. 267, 101 ed. Vienna). Moses was the author of two works (1) " Ohel Mosheh " (The Tent of Moses), on the calendar; (2) "Mizwot Mosheh " (The Precepts of Moses), on the precepts
contained in the Pentateuch.
Samuel Bagi
Turkish scholar; lived at Con-
stantinople in the first half of the seventeenth century. Steinschneider identifies him with a person of
the same
(MSS.
name mentioned
in the "Iggeret
Kelulah
"
Leyden Cat. " p. 127). Samuel is also mentioned by Samuel ben David in his relation of the voyage to Palestine which he made in 164-42 (compare Gurland, "Ginze Yisrael," i. 29). "
Bibliography: Gottlober,
Fiirst,
Bikoret
Geschichte des KarUerthums, le-Toledot
Geschichte des Judenthums Gurland, Ginze Yisrael, I. 29
burger BiUiothek,
p. 55
ha-Karaim,
und Seiner Neubauer,
Aus
14 Jost 369
ill.
p. 203;
Secten,
li.
•
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tier
et seq.
G
I.
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BAGINSKY, ADOLF ARON
Br.
German phyand professor of diseases of children in the Berlin University; born May 22, 1843, at Ratibor
sician,
(Prussian Silesia). At the completion of his highschool education at the gymnasium of his native town (1861), he studied medicine in Berlin and Vienna. He was graduated from Berlin University in 1866, and in the same year accepted the position of private assistant to Doctor Traube at the cholera hospital in Berlin; and in 1868 moved to Seeliausen, near Magdeburg, where he began his career as a practising physician. Two years later, however, he accepted the post of chief physician in a military hospital in Nordhausen, and at the close of the Franco-Prussian war returned to Berlin, where he practised medicine, at the same time pursuing anew the studies which had been interrupted under the pressure of practical work in different hospitals. In 1881 Baginsky was appointed privat-docent at the University of Berlin and in 1892 promoted to an associate professorship at that institution. Baginsky has devoted himself to the treatment of children 's diseases. He is director of the Kaiser und Kaiserin Friedrich Kinderkrankenhaus, which he founded in Berlin with the assistance of Virchow in 1890. The Berlin Poliklinik fur Kinderkrankheiten was also established in the metropolis through his efforts. He is, moreover, the founder and editorin-chief of the " Archiv furKinderheilkunde," which he has published since 1880, in collaboration with Monti and Herz at Stuttgart. Besides being an active member of the majority of medical associations in Berlin, he has taken a leading part in every
Bag-dad Bag-insky,
movement toward promoting
Benno
the welfare of children
in the Prussian capital,
and belongs to a number of medical societies, both in Germany and abroad. His services have been repeatedly recognized alike by the Prussian and foreign governments, and he is the recipient of many orders and decorations. His numerous contributions to the science of medicine include treatises on school-hygiene, "Handbuch der Schulhygiene, "Stuttgart, 1883; and on the cure of children's diseases, "Lehrbuch der Kinderkrankheiten," Berlin, 1892 (these latter have been translated into several languages);
"Practische Beitrage
zur Kinderheilkunde," Tubingen, 1880-84. All of these works have gone through several editions.
Among
his other writings, besides a great number of papers scattered through several medical journals,
may
be mentioned
Kranken Kindes," Weibes,"*. 1885;
" Pflege des Gesunden und Stuttgart, 1885; "DasLebendes
" Kost- und Haltekinderpflege in Berlin," Brunswick, 1886, etc. It may be added that Adolf Baginsky is a member of the several associations and committees formed in Berlin for the purpose of checking the anti-Semitic
movement
in Germany. He is also the author of an interesting essay entitled, " Die Hygienische Bedeu-
tung der Mosaischen Gesetzgebung, " in which he comes forward as a stanch defender and enthusiastic admirer of the hygienic laws of Moses. Notwithstanding his multifarious labors as author, editor, teacher, and practitioner, Baginsky takes active part in the social
munity
and religious
in Berlin.
life
of the Jewish com-
He was
one of the opponents of the movement recently set on foot to hold Sunday
services in the
synagogues of that
city.
Baginsky
member of the Imperial Leopoldina-Carolina Academy commander of the Spanish Order Isabella is
a
the Catholic; and was decorated with the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, fourth class. Bibliography: J. Pagel, Biographisches Lexiknn Hervorragender Acrzte des XIX. Jahrhunderts, s.v.; Klcbard Wrede, Das Geistige Berlin, vol. iil. s.v.; Wernlcb and Hirsch, Bibllographisches Lexicon Hervorragcndcr Acrzte allcr Zeiten und Viilker, s.v.; Archives of Palestine, x., New York, 1893 Brockhaus, Konversations-Lexikon, 14tb ed.; Meyer, Konversations-Lexikon, 5th ed.; and private sources.
A.
S.
BAGINSKY, BENNO:
German
S.
C.
physician; born at Ratibor, Prussia, May 24, 1848; privat-docent of the diseases of the ear, nose, and larynx, at the University of Berlin and honorary professor. Pie was graduated from the gymnasium in his native town and studied medicine in Berlin University, where he received his doctorate in 1870. The same year he entered the army medical service during the Franco-Prussian war, accompanying his regiment to France. At the end of the war Baginsky began the practise of medicine but he soon specialized in the diseases of the ear, nose, and larynx, to which branches, since 1880, he has devoted himself entirely. Four years later he became docent of otology, rhinology, and laryngology, at the University of Berlin. In 1897 he was made honorary professor. Both in Germany and abroad Professor Baginsky by his scientific writings and lectures attained eminence in the profession as a specialist. He has contributed to a number of scientific publications of the best class, such as "Archiv fur Mikroskopische Anatomie," " Archiv fur Physiologie," "Archiv fur
