Starck, Hermann Leberecht
May 6, 1848–October 5, 1922
He was born in Berlin, a German Orientalist and theologian. Although the leader of the missionary Institutum Judaicum, he spent his whole life fighting against anti-Semitism and assorted calumnies against Jews.
He published: Jüdisches Wörterbuch, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der gegenwärtig in Polen üblichen Ausdrücke (Yiddish Dictionary, with Particular Reference to the Terms Currently Used in Poland) (Leipzig: Hinrichs’sche Buchh., 1916), 204 pp.
His second work in the field of Jewish studies was Jüdischdeutsche texte: Lesebuch zur Einführung in Denken, Leben und Sprache der osteuropäischen Juden (Judeo-German Text, Reader for an Introduction to the Thinking, Life, and Language of Eastern European Jews) (Leipzig: Hinrichs’sche Buchh., 1917), 56 pp.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.