Hyman Hurwitz

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Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844) was a learned Jew who became first professor of Hebrew at University College, London. He was born in Poznań, Poland in 1770, came to England about 1797{{cite book |editor1-first=George |editor1-last=Whalley |title=The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eeo9AAAAIAAJ |access-date= 27 April 2011 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd |year=1984 |location=London |isbn=0-7100-0250-5 |pages=1188–1189}} and conducted a private academy for Jews at Highgate, where he established a close friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and corresponded with him. Coleridge once described Hurwitz as "the first Hebrew and Rabbinical Scholar in the Kingdom". In 1828, on Coleridge's recommendation, he was elected professor of the Hebrew language and literature at University College, London. His inaugural lecture was published. He died on 18 July 1844.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hurwitz, Hyman |first=William|last=Husband|author-link=William Husband|volume=28|quote=source: [Private information; Voice of Jacob, iii. 196 (22 Aug. 1844); Brit. Mus. Cat.]}} Hurwitz was buried in the Brady Street Cemetery near Whitechapel in London's East End.{{cite web|title=Brady Street Cemetery|url=https://www.theus.org.uk/article/brady-street-cemetery|publisher=United Synagogue|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-date=9 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109043509/https://www.theus.org.uk/article/brady-street-cemetery|url-status=dead}}