Articles:
Gottheil, Richard James Horatio
Dagmar A. Riedel
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- Title:
- Gottheil, Richard James Horatio
- Author(s):
- Riedel, Dagmar A.
- Date:
- 2005
- Type:
- Articles
- Department:
- Center for Iranian Studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14575
- Book/Journal Title:
- Encyclopædia Iranica
- Abstract:
- Gottheil, Richard James Horatio (b. 13 October 1862, Manchester, UK; d. 22 May 1936, New York City), a prolific scholar, an important academic teacher and administrator, as well as an influential public intellectual. Gottheil was professor of Semitic languages and rabbinical literature at Columbia University (1887-1936) and the first Chief of the Oriental Division of the New York Public Library (1897-1936).
- Subject(s):
- Islamic culture
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