Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974), scholar

Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974) was a Lithuanian-born American Jewish scholar.

Biography

Scholar, Philosopher, Historian. Born in Lithuania, moved to America in 1908. PhD (1915) at Harvard University, where he spent his entire academic career. Student and friend of George F. Moore. Professor of Hebrew literature and philosophy at Harvard. In 1925 became the first scholar in any American university to occupy a chair devoted solely to Jewish studies. Founding member and president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Devoted his life to the study of the foundations of Jewish, Christian and Islamic philosophy, and is noted for having collapsed all the artificial barriers which isolated their study.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy (1947 Wolfson), book

• The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Faith, Trinity, Incarnation (1956 Wolfson), book

Select Bibliography (articles)

• Wolfson, Harry Austryn / David Winston / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), dictionary, 1345-1346

External links

• Wikipedia