His Works
Kaufmann displayed a many-sided literary activity. The bibliography of his works which M. Brann compiled for the Gedenkbuch zur Erinnerung an David Kaufmann (ed. M. Brann and F. Rosenthal, Breslau, 1900) includes 546 items, covering nearly every branch of Jewish science. His voluminous contributions to the periodical literature of the last two decades of the 19th century show him as a finished writer both of German and of Hebrew. His first and most important works, dealing with the philosophy of religion, include:
- Die Theologie des Bachja ibn Pakuda, Verfasser des חובות הלבבות, a prize essay written while a student at the seminary (in Berichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1874)
- Geschichte der Attributenlehre in der Jüdischen Religionsphilosophie des Mittelalters von Saadia bis Maimuni (Gotha, 1877–78), his chief work, being a survey of the Jewish and Arabic religious philosophy of the Middle Ages
- Die Spuren al-Batlajusi's in der Jüdischen Religionsphilosophie Nebst einer Ausgabe der Hebr. Uebersetzung Seiner Bildlichen Kreise (Budapest, 1880; also in Hungarian)
- Die Sinne. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Physiologie und Psychologie im Mittelalter. Aus Hebräischen und Arabischen Quellen (Budapest, 1884; also in Hungarian)
- an edition of the Minḥat Ḳena'ot of Jehiel ben Samuel Pisa (Berlin, 1898, forming a part of the Meḳiẓe Nirdamim collection)
- Studien über Salomon ibn Gabirol (Budapest, 1899; also in Hungarian)
- a large number of essays in various periodicals, noteworthy among which is the paper Der Führer Maimuni's in der Weltlitteratur (reprinted from Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, by L. Stein, xi., No. 3).
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