Robert Eisler
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Robert Eisler (M / Austria, 1882-1949), Jewish scholar
Born in Vienna, Austria, Eisler was an Austrian Jewish polymath who wrote about the topics of mythology, comparative religion, the Gospels, monetary policy, art history, history of science, psychoanalysis, politics, astrology, history of currency, and value theory. He is best remembered today for advancing a new picture of John the Baptist and Jesus based on his interpretation of the Slavonic Josephus manuscript tradition. Following the Anschluss in March 1938, Eisler was imprisoned at Dachau and then Buchenwald. After his release in 1939, he moved to England where he died in 1949.