| Erwin Rosenthal | |
| Birth Date: | 18 September 1904 |
| Birth Place: | Heilbronn, German Empire |
| Death Date: | 1991 |
| Death Place: | England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Heidelberg University of Berlin |
| Occupation: | Hebrew scholar and orientalist |
| Spouse: | Elisabeth Charlotte Rosenthal, née Marx |
| Children: | Tom Rosenthal Miriam Hodgson |
Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal (18 September 1904 – 1991), was a German-born British Hebrew scholar and orientalist.
Erwin Isak Jacob Rosenthal was born in Heilbronn, Germany, on 18 September 1904 into a Jewish family.[1] He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Berlin where he studied History, Arabic, and Aramaic, and published his dissertation in 1932, and then with Leo Baeck, Hanokh Albeck, and Ismar Elbogen.[1]
In 1933, Rosenthal and his wife left Nazi Germany and moved to London, where he was appointed as a part-time lecturer in Hebrew and North Semitic Epigraphy at University College London, then Manchester, and later Cambridge.[2] [3]
Rosenthal became a Fellow of Pembroke College and a Reader in Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[2]
He married Elisabeth Charlotte Marx (1907–1996), and they had two children, Tom Rosenthal a publisher,[2] and Miriam Hodgson, an editor of children's books.[3]