KASPER KALVER
He was a
Christian missionary who published missionary works in Yiddish, as well as a
short report on the Yiddish language (1710) which was, however, taken entirely
from Johann Christoph Wagenseil.
Sources: B, Borokhov, Di biblyotek fun dem yidishn
filolog (The library of the Yiddish
philologist), in Pinkes (Warsaw) 3
(1913); Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol.
3; F. C. B. Avé-Lallemant, Das deutsche
Gaunerthum (German thievery), vol. 3 (Leipzig, 1862), pp. 220-21.
Dovid Katz
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