Richard Rudolf Walzer
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Richard Rudolf Walzer, FBA (14 July 1900 in Berlin – 16 April 1975 in Oxford) was a German-born British scholar of Greek philosophy and of Arabic philosophy.
Education: , Berlin-Schöneberg; Frederick William University of Berlin.
Career[]
- Assistant (1927), Privatdocent in Classics (1932), Frederick William University of Berlin, 1927–1933
- Lecturer in Greek Philosophy, University of Rome, 1933–1938
- Lecturer in Mediaeval Philosophy (Arabic and Hebrew) (1942), Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Greek Philosophy (1950), Oriel College, Oxford, 1942–1962
- Honorary Professor, University of Hamburg, 1952
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1953–1954
- Fellow, Reader in Arabic and Greek Philosophy St Catherine's College, Oxford, 1962–1970
- He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1956.
Categories:
- Jewish philosophers
- British philosophers
- German philologists
- British philologists
- German orientalists
- British orientalists
- Orientalists
- German scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- Writers from Berlin
- 1902 births
- 1975 deaths
- German male non-fiction writers
- Farabi scholars
- 20th-century German philosophers
- 20th-century philologists
- German philosopher stubs
- British philosopher stubs
- British linguist stubs