Erwin Rosenthal
Erwin Rosenthal | |
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Born | 18 September 1904 Heilbronn, Germany |
Died | 1991 England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Heidelberg University of Berlin |
Occupation | Hebrew scholar and orientalist |
Spouse(s) | Elisabeth Charlotte Rosenthal, née Marx |
Children | Tom 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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Guide to the Erwin Rosenthal Correspondence and Notes 1961-1968". Yeshiva University. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Tom Rosenthal - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ 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.)
- 1904 births
- 1991 deaths
- Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- British orientalists
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom