Harry Austryn Wolfson
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Harry Wolfson; Henry Austryn Wolfson; H.A. Wolfson; Harry A. Wolfson; H. A. Wolfson; Harry A Wolfson
Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, and historian at Harvard University, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Center in the United States. He is best known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but he also authored an astonishing variety of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion.