Samuel Landauer

Samuel Landauer (22 February 1846 at Hürben, Bavaria – 1937 in Augsburg) was a German Jewish orientalist and librarian.

He received his education at the Yeshiva of Eisenstadt (Hungary), the gymnasium of Mainz, and the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg, and Munich (Ph.D. 1872).

In 1875, he became privatdozent of Semitic languages at the University of Strasbourg, and was appointed librarian there in 1884.

Landauer published: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls.