David S. Blondheim
David Simon Blondheim (25 August 1884 in Baltimore – 19 March 1934 in 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 rabbinical 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
- D. S. Blondheim, Poèmes judéo-français du moyen-âge, publiés et étudiés par D. S. Blondheim (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1927).
- David Simon Blondheim, A Brilliant and Eccentric Mathematician. General Books, 978-1-235-59885-2[10] [A biographical article about James Joseph Sylvester.]
- Kadimah, a publication of the Intercollegiate Zionist Association of America, David S. Blondheim, ed. (New York: Federation of American Zionists, 1918)[11]
References
- 1 2 Guide to the David Simon Blondheim papers, 1924–1981, Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University
- 1 2 3 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.
- 1 2 Gold, David L. (1986). Jewish Language Review. 6: 202. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Shimeon Brisman (2000). A History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-88125-658-1.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Yakov Malkiel (4 November 1993). Etymology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-0-521-31166-3.
- ↑ H. H. Schapiro. A Bibliography of the Publications of David S. Blondheim. Modern Language Association of America.
- ↑ Dulles, Eleanor Lansing — American National Biography Online
- ↑ Lewis Samuel Feuer (1974). Einstein and the Generations of Science. Transaction Publishers. pp. 99–. ISBN 978-1-4128-2235-0.
- ↑ Jonathan D. Sarna; Ellen Smith; Scott-Martin Kosofsky (2005). The Jews of Boston. Yale University Press. pp. 255–. ISBN 978-0-300-10787-6.