Leopold Dukes (; 17 January 1810, Pozsony – 3 August 1891, Vienna) was a Hungarian critic of Jewish literature. Biography Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his researches in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable Hebrew libraries in the world) Dukes was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples. Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabirol. See also Adolf Dux References Attribution External links Jewish Encyclopedia entry written by Isidore Singer & Isaac Broydé Digitized works by Leopold Dukes at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York Hungarian literary critics Jewish Hungarian writers Hungarian expatriates in the United Kingdom Hungarian expatriates in Germany Writers from Bratislava 1810 births 1891 deaths