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in schools. Grimké wished to foster better Hebrew education in the United States and promote it as a classical language similar to the status given to Greek or Latin. He planned to meet
Nordheimer in New York, but before Nordheimer arrived, Grimké had died. Arriving in New York in the summer of 1835,
446:(New York, 1838). Nordheimer left several works in manuscript; a Chaldee and Syriac grammar and an Arabic grammar in German; a larger Arabic grammar in English; a Hebrew concordance, incomplete; Ecclesiastes translated and explained, in German; and a mass of philological notes.
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Since his first bout of tuberculosis, Nordheimer's health had always been delicate. It began to decline toward the end of his life, even as he pursued a variety of treatments prescribed by physicians, along with recuperative visits to the
442:" (July 1838) was particularly notable. In 1838 he published the first volume of his elaborate Hebrew grammar, and in 1841 the second volume (2d ed., with additions and improvements, 2 vols., New York, 1842). Another work was
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in 1839, it incorporated philological elements, with Bush explicitly mentioning
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languages. He is notable as an early Jewish scholar in the United States, as well as being a linguist who was also educated in the
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aged eighteen to return home and recuperate. Hebrew scholar Shalom
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