George A. Barton (1859-1942), scholar

George Aaron Barton (1859-1942) was a Canadian-born American scholar. Born in Quebec, Canada. PhD (1891) at Harvard University. After teaching at Bryn Mawr College, he succeeded Morris Jastrow as Professor of Semitic languages and the history of religion at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1922 to 1931 and then as a professor emeritus from 1932 until his death.