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Alexander Kohut (1842–1894)
Kohut, Alexander (kō’höt). A distinguished Jewish-American theologian, scholar, and preacher; born at Félegyházza, Hungary, May 19, 1842; died in New York, May 25, 1894. He founded the Jewish theological seminary in New York (1886), in which he was professor (1886–94). His chief work was ‘Complete Dictionary of the Talmud’ (9 vols., 1878–92). In later years he devoted himself to Arabic-Hebrew literature as recently discovered in the MS. fragments from Yemen.