Awards & Winners

Harry Austryn Wolfson

Date of Birth 02-November-1887
Place of Birth Shchuchyn district
(Belarus)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Professor, Philosopher, Historian, Author
Harry Austryn Wolfson was a scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States. He is best known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but was the author of an astonishing variety and quantity of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion. His greatest contribution may therefore have been in collapsing all the artificial barriers that isolated the study of Christian philosophy from Islamic philosophy 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.

Awards by Harry Austryn Wolfson

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1974


Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion

1949


National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience
Honored for : Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam