Leon Roth (scholar)

Roth attended the City of London School and then Exeter College, Oxford, where he read classics.

In the meantime, he completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford;[1] his DPhil was awarded in 1922 for his thesis "A Critical Discussion of the Sources of Spinoza, with Special Reference to Maimonides and Descartes".

He remained there for five years, before moving in 1928 to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he took up the Ahad Ha-am Professorship of Philosophy.

[4] Roth was appointed an Officier d'Académie in 1926 and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1948.

[1] He was the subject of a Festschrift: Studies in Rationalism, Judaism and Universalism in Memory of Leon Roth, edited by Raphael Loewe and published by Routledge in 1966.