Samuel van Straalen (24 June 1845 – 8 December 1902) was a Dutch-born English Hebraist and librarian.
[1] He was appointed Hebrew librarian at the British Museum in 1873, following the deaths of Immanuel Deutsch and Joseph Zedner.
[2] Van Straalen translated many Dutch, German, and Hebrew books, including Louisa Stratenus [Wikidata]'s Gewroken (1892), and Alfred Hermann Fried's The Diary of a Condemned Man (1899).
He is best known for his catalogue of the Hebrew books in the British Museum (London, 1894) supplementary to that by Joseph Zedner, with an index to both volumes.
[3] He also prepared a subject catalogue of the Hebrew collection, containing some 11,100 titles,[2] which was left unpublished until 1991.