Harry Austryn Wolfson

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Harry Austryn Wolfson

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Why Is Harry Austryn Wolfson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Harry Austryn Wolfson was an American scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States. He is known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but he also authored an astonishing variety of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion. He collapsed the artificial barriers that isolated the study of Christian philosophy from Islamic philosophy and from Jewish philosophy . Being the first Judaica scholar to progress through an entire career at a top-tier university , in Wolfson is also represented the fulfillment of the goals of the 19th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Harry Austryn Wolfson?

Harry Austryn Wolfson is affiliated with the following schools:

• Harvard University