Erwin Rosenthal Explained

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.

Early life

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]

Career

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]

Selected publications

Personal life

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guide to the Erwin Rosenthal Correspondence and Notes 1961-1968. Yeshiva University. 2 December 2017. 25 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170825230505/http://libfindaids.yu.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/erwinrosenthal/erwinrosenthal.xml;query=;brand=default. dead.
  2. News: Tom Rosenthal - obituary. 1 December 2017. The Daily Telegraph. 22 January 2014.
  3. Hodgson [née Rosenthal], Miriam Ann ]. 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/96218 . 30 November 2017.