Harry Austryn Wolfson
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Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, historian, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States.
In his youth he studied at the Slabodka Yeshiva under Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. He was a professor at Harvard University for approximately half a century, and was a student and friend both of George Santayana and George Foot Moore.
He wrote works including a translation and commentary on Hasdai Crescas' Ohr Hashem, the philosophy of the church fathers, the repercussions of the Kalam on Judaism, a work on Spinoza, and an analysis of Philo.
[edit] Family
Harry Wolfson was brother to the comedian Nathaniel Wolfson (b.1900) and great-uncle to the contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson (b. 1980).
[edit] Works
- Wolfson, H. A. "Solomon Pappenheim on time and space and his relation to Locke and Kant" / Henry Austryn Wolfson. // IN: Jewish studies in memory of Israel Abrahams / by the faculty and visiting teachers of the Jewish Institute of Religion. – New York : Press of the Jewish Institute of Religion, 1927. – p. 426-440.
The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Processes of His Reasoning. Harvard University Press. 1934. 1962.
Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Harvard University Press. 1947.
Philosophy of the Kalam. Harvard University Press. 1976
The Philosophy of the Church Fathers: Volume I Faith Trinity, Incarnation. Harvard University Press. 1956
