Samuel Krauss

Samuel Krauss

Samuel Krauss (1866-1948) was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894-1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906-1938. He came to England as a refugee and spent his last years at Cambridge.

He was a contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia as "S. Kr." [cite web | url = http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/contrib.jsp?cid=C120134&artid=10&letter=C&cletter=A | title = S. Kr. Samuel Krauss, Ph.D., Professor, Normal College, Budapest, Hungary. | publisher = JewishEncyclopedia.com | accessdate = 2007-03-01]

"Professor Krauss's scholarship encompassed every area of ancient Judaism."cite book | title = Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue | first = Steven | last = Fine | pages = xv | year = 1999 | publisher = Routledge (UK) | isbn = 0415182476] In 1910, he became a pioneer in Talmudic archaeology with the publication of "Talmudische Archäologie", which was reprinted in Hebrew in 1924. [cite book | title = The City in Roman Palestine | first = Daniel | last = Sperber | authorlink = Daniel Sperber | pages = 5 | year = 1998 | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn = 019509882X] As of 1998, his 1922 study of the ancient synagogue, "Synogogale Alertümer", was still considered essential reading on the topic.

In 1935 he published a comprehesive and detailed study of Biblical names of ninety eight then modern nations. [cite journal | title = Minni: Allemania? | first = Judah M. | last = Rosenthal | journal = The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Ser. | volume = 48 | issue = 2, Dropsie College Jubilee Alumni Issue | month = October | year = 1957 | pages = pp. 204–20 | doi = 10.2307/1452710]

His grandson, Philip, now lives in Canada with his wife and children.

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External links

* [http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/guide/MS163.shtml University of Southhampton bio]


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