Julius Guttmann

Julius Guttmann (

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Biography

Julius was born to

in 1880.

Julius received his basic training at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and the

, a position which he held until his death.

Works

Guttmann is best known for Die Philosophie des Judentums (Reinhardt, 1933), translations of which are available in

, etc. The English title is The Philosophy of Judaism: The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig.

H.A. Wolfson

among many others—it is certainly the case that the Wissenschaft movement in Germany had by the 1930s already ceased to thrive.

The original German edition of Philosophie des Judentums ends with

(Werblowsky 1964).

Personalities Appearing in "Die Philosophie des Judentums"

• Chiwi al-Balkhi
• Saadia ben Joseph
• Isaac Israeli
• Solomon ibn Gabirol
• Bahya ibn Paquda
• Yehuda Halevy
• Abraham ibn Daud
• Moses Maimonides
• Levi ben Gerson
• Chasdai Crescas
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Spinoza
• Solomon Formstecher
• Samuel Hirsch
• Nachman Krochmal
• Salomon Ludwig Steinheim
• Moritz Lazarus
• Hermann Cohen
• Franz Rosenzweig

See also

• Isaac Husik, whose English language history of medieval Jewish philosophy bears similarities to Guttmann's Philosophies of Judaism.

References

• Roth, Leon (1999) [1962], Is there a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals, London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  . pp. vii–x.

External links

• Works by or about Julius Guttmann at Internet Archive