David Simon Blondheim (August 25, 1884, Baltimore – body found March 19, 1934, Baltimore)[1] was a professor of Romance philology at the Johns Hopkins University[2] and a scholar of medieval Jewish texts in Romance languages.
in 1906 and a Ph.D. in 1910 from the Johns Hopkins University, [1] with study in Paris at the École des Hautes Études.
[9] He carried on the research of Arsene Darmesteter into rabbinical glosses.
[8] A substantial survey of Blondheim's life and work appeared as David L. Gold, 'Towards a Prosopography of David Simon Blondheim (1884-1934),' Jewish Language Review (Haifa, Israel: Association for the Study of Jewish Languages), vol.
"Blondheim's papers are in the National and University Library, Jerusalem" (Gold, op.