Richard Rudolf Walzer

Richard Rudolf Walzer,^[1] FBA (14 July 1900 in Berlin – 16 April 1975 in Oxford) was a German-born British scholar of Greek philosophy and of Arabic philosophy.

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Education: Werner-Siemens-Realgymnasium, Berlin-Schöneberg; Frederick William University of Berlin.

Career

Assistant (1927), Privatdocent in Classics (1932), Frederick William University of Berlin, 1927–1933
Lecturer in Greek Philosophy, University of Rome, 1933–1938
Lecturer in Mediaeval Philosophy (Arabic and Hebrew) (1942), Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Greek Philosophy (1950), Oriel College, Oxford, 1942–1962
Honorary Professor, University of Hamburg, 1952
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953–1954
Fellow, Reader in Arabic and Greek Philosophy St Catherine's College, Oxford, 1962–1970
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1956.

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Publications

Walzer, Richard (1949). Galen on Jews and Christians. London: Oxford University Press.
Walzer, Richard (1962). Greek into Arabic : essays on Islamic philosophy. Oxford: B. Cassirer.
Farabi (1985). Walzer, Richard (ed.). Al-farabi on the perfect State : Abu Nasr al-Farabi's mabadi' Ara' ahl al-madina al-fadila. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Festschrift

Stern, S.M.; Hourani, Albert; Brown, Vivian, eds. (1972). Islamic philosophy and the classical tradition : essays presented by his friends and pupils to Richard Walzer on his seventieth birthday. Oxford: B. Cassirer.

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Richard Rudolf Walzer

Career

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