Book Review: Franz Rosenthal: Knowledge Triumphant
He was the most brilliant representative of the heroic and final stage of classical orientalism, notes Dimitri Gutas in his glowing tribute to Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003), whose Knowledge Triumphant (first published by Brill in 1970) is the second volume in Brill's new series, "Classics in Islam". "[His] precocity matched the exacting standards of his renowned professors" (xi). Trained in an age "when oriental studies had not developed narrow specialization in the various disciplines", Rosenthal was "a consummate philologist in a number of languages, especially in Arabic and Aramaic" (xiii). Born and educated in Berlin, Rosenthal moved to the United States in 1940, where he first taught at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and then at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1956, he moved to Yale where he remained until his retirement in 1985.
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