Alexander Altmann
Alexander Altmann (April 16, 1906 – June 6, 1987) was an
Orthodox Jewish scholar and
rabbi born in
Kassa,
Austria-Hungary (present-day
Košice,
Slovakia). He emigrated to
England in 1938 and later settled in the
United States, working productively for a decade and a half as a professor within the Philosophy Department at
Brandeis University. He is best known for his studies of the thought of
Moses Mendelssohn, and was indeed the leading Mendelssohn scholar since the time of Mendelssohn himself. He also made important contributions to the study of
Jewish mysticism, and for a large part of his career he was the only scholar in the United States working on this subject in a purely academic setting. Among the many Brandeis students whose work he supervised in this area were
Elliot Wolfson,
Arthur Green,
Heidi Ravven,
Paul Mendes-Flohr,
Lawrence Fine, and
Daniel Matt.
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