Samuel Landauer (22 February 1846 at
Hürben, Bavaria – 1937 in
Augsburg
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) was a German Jewish orientalist and librarian.
He received his education at the Yeshiva of
Eisenstadt (Hungary), the gymnasium of
Mainz
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Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
, and the universities of
Leipzig
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,
Strasbourg, and
Munich
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(Ph.D. 1872). In 1875, he became ''
privatdozent'' of Semitic languages at the
University of Strasbourg
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, 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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German orientalists
Jewish orientalists
German librarians
19th-century German Jews
People from Günzburg (district)
German expatriates in Hungary
People from Eisenstadt
1846 births
1937 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
Oberlander Jews