Benedikt Isserlin
Benedikt Sigmund Johannes Isserlin (1916 – 2005) was a scholar of Hebrew who was Head of the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Isserlin was born in Munich in 1916. He left Germany in the early 1930s and completed his schooling in Switzerland. In 1935 he went to the University of Edinburgh to read History and Archaeology. He graduated in 1939 and moved to Magdalen College, Oxford to read Oriental Languages, specialising in Hebrew and Arabic. Isserlin taught German at King Alfred's School in Wantage for several years before returning to Oxford University in 1947 as Kennicott Hebrew Fellow for three years. He was awarded the degree of BLitt by Oxford in 1951 and in 1954 he was awarded a DPhil, also by Oxford, for a thesis on place names in ancient Palestine. Academic career Isserlin was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Hebrew in the Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Leeds in 1951. He was promot ...
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Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ...
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