Leo Aryeh Mayer

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Leo Aryeh Mayer.

Leo Aryeh Mayer

OBE (Hebrew: ליאון אריה מאיר, 12 January 1895 – 6 April 1959), was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
.

Biography

Mayer was born in 1895, in the city of

Zionist "Hashomer" movement (later to become the Hashomer Hatzair
).

In 1917, Mayer finished his studies and began teaching and working as an assistant librarian at the Institute of Oriental. In 1919, he returned to his hometown and started teaching in high school. However, due to the turmoil that followed the

First World War (Stanisławów was fought over, and occupied at different time, by the forces of Poland, the West Ukrainian National Republic, Romania, the Ukrainian separatist forces and the Red Army, before it was finally incorporated into Poland until 1939), Meyer moved to Berlin
and was employed in the oriental department of city's state library.

Mayer emigrated to

Department of Antiquities of the government of the British Mandate
, as an inspector until 1929, and from 1929 to 1933 as Director of the Archives. After leaving the department, he was given the honorary appointment as a supervisor at the new Government museum in Jerusalem.

In the meantime, in 1925, Meyer had joined the first staff of the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was appointed Lecturer in Islamic Art and Archaeology in 1929.[1] In 1932, he was promoted to full professor, becoming the first Sir David Sassoon Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology and served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and as Rector of the university from 1943 to 1945.[1]

Mayer also worked jointly with

Agrippa, king of Judea
, in 41–44 CE.

From 1940 to 1950, Mayer served as president of the Israel Exploration Society and was honorary president of the Israel Oriental Society. He was also elected a member of government Archaeological Council, a member of the Land of Israel Folklore Society, a member of Association of Archaeologists in London and an honorary member of American Heraldry Society.

Awards and honours

Published books (partial)

  • Excavations at the Third Wall of Jerusalem's Old City, 1930 (jointly with A.L. Sukenik)
  • Mayer, L. A. (1933). Saracenic Heraldry: A Survey. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Beginning and rise of Islamic Archeology, 1935
  • Annual bibliography of Islamic art and archaeology :India excepted, 1935
  • Mayer, L.A., ed. (1936). Annual bibliography of Islamic art and archaeology: India excepted. Vol. II. Jerusalem: Divan Publishing House.
  • Mayer, L.A., ed. (1937). Annual bibliography of Islamic art and archaeology: India excepted. Vol. III. Jerusalem: Divan Publishing House.
  • new Material for Mamaluk Heraldry, Jerusalem, 1937
  • articles in Ars Islamica, 1936-7
  • Bibliography of Islamic numismatics, Royal Asiatic Society, 1939, 1954
  • Mamaluk costume, 1952
  • Religious buildings of the Muslims in Israel, 1950 (jointly with
    Jacob Pinkerfeld and Yigael Yadin
    )
  • L'art juif en terre de l'Islam, 1959
  • Bibliography of Jewish Art
  • Islamic Architects and their works, 1956
  • Islamic Astrolabists and their works, 1956
  • Islamic Metalworkers and their works, 1959
  • Islamic Armourers and their works, 1962

Published articles (partial list)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e JStor: Leo A. Mayer
  2. ^ "No. 38161". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1948. p. 31.
  3. ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1959 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Islamic Art Museum in Jerusalem". Archived from the original on 6 January 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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