Samuel Landauer

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Samuel Landauer (born at Hürben, Bavaria, February 22, 1846; died 1937) was a German Jewish Orientalist and librarian.

He received his education at the yeshibah of Eisenstadt (Hungary), the gymnasium of Mayence, and the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg, and Munich (Ph.D. 1872). In 1875 he became privat-docent of Semitic languages at the University of Strasburg, and was appointed librarian there in 1884. In 1894 he received the title of Professor.

Landauer published:

  • "Psychologie des Ibn Sinâ," 1872
  • "Sa'adja's Kitâb al-Amânât," Leyden, 1880
  • "Katalog der Kaiserlichen Universität- und Landesbibliothek Strasburg, Orientalische Handschriften," 1881
  • "Firdusi Schahname," Leyden, 1884
  • "Die Handschriften der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, Orientalische Handschriften," 1892
  • "Die Masorah zum Onkelos," Amsterdam, 1896
  • "Themistius 'De cælo'" (for the Aristoteles Commission of the Berlin Academy), Berlin, 1902.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.