Erwin Rosenthal

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Erwin Rosenthal
Born18 September 1904
Heilbronn, Germany
Died1991
England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Heidelberg
University of Berlin
OccupationHebrew scholar and orientalist
Spouse(s)Elisabeth Charlotte Rosenthal, née Marx
ChildrenTom Rosenthal
Miriam Hodgson

Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal (18 September 1904 – 1991), was a German-born British Hebrew scholar and orientalist.

Early life[]

Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal was born in Heilbronn, Germany, on 18 September 1904 into a Jewish family.[1] He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Berlin where he studied History, Arabic, and Aramaic, and published his dissertation in 1932, and then with Leo Baeck, , and Ismar Elbogen.[1]

Career[]

In 1933, Rosenthal and his wife left Nazi Germany and moved to London, where he was appointed as a part-time lecturer in Hebrew and North Semitic Epigraphy at University College London, then Manchester, and later Cambridge.[2][3]

Rosenthal became a Fellow of Pembroke College and a Reader in Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[2]

Selected publications[]

  • Political Thought in Medieval Islam (1958)
  • Judaism and Islam (Thomas Yoseloff, London, 1961)

Personal life[]

He married Elisabeth Charlotte Marx (1907–1996), and they had two children, Tom Rosenthal a publisher,[2] and Miriam Hodgson, an editor of children's books.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Guide to the Erwin Rosenthal Correspondence and Notes 1961-1968". Yeshiva University. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tom Rosenthal - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Hodgson [née Rosenthal], Miriam Ann". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96218. Retrieved 30 November 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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