David S. Blondheim

David Simon Blondheim (25 August 1884, Baltimore – 19 March 1934, Baltimore)[1] was a professor of Romance philology at Johns Hopkins University[2] and a scholar of medieval Jewish texts in Romance languages.[3]

Early life and education

Blondheim received his A.B. in 1906 and his Ph.D. in 1910 from Johns Hopkins University.[1] Blondheim attended École des Hautes Études.[4]

Career

Blondheim studied medieval Romance languages and researched medieval writings, particularly Hebraico-French texts,[5] and is the author of many books about early translations of Jewish texts.[6] He carried on the research of Arsene Darmesteter into rabinnical glosses.[7]He was also a skilled editor.[5]

A substantial survey of Blondheim's life and work appeared in Jewish Language Review (Haifa, Israel: Association for the Study of Jewish Languages), vol. 6 (1986). This issue includes biographical materials assembled by David L. Gold, pp. 185-202. The same issue includes an extensive bibliography.[8]

Personal life

He was married twice, his second wife being Eleanor Lansing Dulles,[2] who compiled a bibliography of his works. [3] He committed suicide in 1934.[2] He divorced his first wife with whom he had a son. He married Eleanor Dulles in December 1932; their son, born after his father's suicide, was named David Dulles.[9]

Publications

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Guide to the David Simon Blondheim papers, 1924–1981, Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stephen Glain (15 August 2012). State Vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire. Broadway Books. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-307-40842-6.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gold, David L. (1986). Jewish Language Review 6: 202. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. Shimeon Brisman (2000). A History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-88125-658-1.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Kirsten A. Fudeman (6 June 2011). Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 0-8122-0535-9.
  6. James K. Aitken; James Carleton Paget (31 October 2014). The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 138–. ISBN 978-1-107-00163-3.
  7. Yakov Malkiel (4 November 1993). Etymology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-0-521-31166-3.
  8. H. H. Schapiro. A Bibliography of the Publications of David S. Blondheim. Modern Language Association of America.
  9. Dulles, Eleanor Lansing — American National Biography Online
  10. Lewis Samuel Feuer (1974). Einstein and the Generations of Science. Transaction Publishers. pp. 99–. ISBN 978-1-4128-2235-0.
  11. Jonathan D. Sarna; Ellen Smith; Scott-Martin Kosofsky (2005). The Jews of Boston. Yale University Press. pp. 255–. ISBN 978-0-300-10787-6.