David Cohen (historian)
David Cohen (31 December 1882, Deventer – 3 September 1967, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Classics, classicist and Papyrology, papyrologist and one of the two chairs of the (, or , of Amsterdam) during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam and a prominent Zionism, Zionist leader. Education and career until 1940 Cohen was educated at Leiden University. He was a teacher in The Hague and became a private lecturer at the Leiden University, University of Leiden. In 1924 he became a professor by special appointment at the same university. Two years later he was appointed full professor of Ancient History at the Municipal University of Amsterdam. Cohen was one of the founders and editor of ''Hermeneus: Monthly Magazine for Ancient Culture'', the first edition of which appeared in 1928. Second World War and after In 1941 Cohen and Asscher were appointed by the German occupiers as chairs of the Jewish Council fo ...
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