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.