[or Maurice Bloch]. Hungarian philologist, born at Ternova on the 17th of April 1815, of indigent Hebrew parents, he procured an education at Budapest and Paris, only by severe exertions; went to Tübingen University in 1840, and became a Protestant; chosen one of the professors at the University of Szarvas in 1844; he was, in 1848, secretary for General Georgei and for the Hungarian Minister of War. He returned to his pupils in 1857 and was for over twenty years their teacher. His Books of Moses and Joshua (1840–45), in the Magyar language; Magyar Anthology (1847); and Collection of Magyar Proverbs (1850), with many philological works, have made him a recognized authority on the Magyar tongue.
