Joseph Bergel or Bergl (2 September 1802, Prossnitz – 1885, Kaposvár) was a Hungarian physician and writer. His most important work is Die Medizin der Talmudisten (Leipzig and Berlin, 1885), with an appendix on anthropology as it is found in ancient Hebrew writings.
He was well versed in rabbinical and modern Hebrew literature, and attempted to introduce a new meter into Hebrew poetry in a work he published under the title Pirḥe Leshon 'Eber (Hebrew songs), Gross-Kanizsa, 1873.
In German he wrote:
- Studien über die Naturwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse der Talmudisten, Leipzig, 1880
- Die Eheverhältnisse der Alten Juden im Vergleich mit den Griechischen und Römischen, ib. 1881
- Der Himmel und Seine Wunder, eine Archäologische Studie nach Alten Jüdischen Mythografien, which was also published in Leipzig in the same year under the title Mythologie der Alten Hebräer, 1882
These works are not profound, but they bring together a certain amount of useful information. Bergel also wrote Geschichte der Juden in Ungarn, published in 1879 in Hungarian and German.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isidore Singer, Peter Wiernik (1901–1906). "BERGEL (BERGL), JOSEPH". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- Chaim David Lippe, Bibliographisches Lexicon, v. 1, 2
- Meyer Kayserling, Jüdische Litteratur, p. 131
- Revue Etudes Juives, x. 266, 267
- Ha-Ẓefirah, 1885, No. 12.
- 1802 births
- 1885 deaths
- Writers from Prostějov
- People from the Margraviate of Moravia
- Jewish Czech writers
- Writers from the Austrian Empire
- Physicians from the Austrian Empire
- 19th-century Hungarian physicians
- Jewish Hungarian writers
- Hebrew-language writers
- Writers from Austria-Hungary
- Moravian Jews
- Hungarian people from the Austrian Empire
- 19th-century Hungarian male writers
- Hungarian writers in German
- Czech medical writers