Moses Elkan | |
Birth Place: | Tulchin, Podolsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
Moses Elkan (; died January 31, 1822) was a Russian physician and Hebrew scholar.
Elkan's works include a hymn in Hebrew and French addressed to Czar Alexander I (Munich, 1811).[1] He also published a manual in German on the history of the Jewish people, accompanied by a geographical sketch of Palestine, intended for use in Jewish schools. It was later translated into Russian by Z. Minor (Moscow, 1880).