James (John) Edward Hanauer (1850–1938) was an author, photographer, and Canon of
St. George's Cathedral in
Jerusalem
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Biography
Hanauer was born to Bavarian Jewish and Swiss parents in Damascus
and baptised in
Jaffa
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(in then
Ottoman Syria
Ottoman Syria () is a historiographical term used to describe the group of divisions of the Ottoman Empire within the region of the Levant, usually defined as being east of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the Euphrates River, north of the Ara ...
); he moved to Jerusalem at an early age.
[ His father, Christian Wilhelm Hanauer, was born in Fellheim, Bavaria, in 1810, but came to Jerusalem and converted from Judaism to Christianity in September 1843 through the London Society. J. E. Hanauer later became head of the same institution through which his father converted.]
Career
Hanauer was employed by Charles Warren
Sir Charles Warren (7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military ...
's expedition to the Transjordan, as a translator and assistant photographer, the beginning of his interest in research on the antiquities and folklore of the region and leading to his involvement with the Palestine Exploration Fund
The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London. It was founded in 1865, shortly after the completion of the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem by Royal Engineers of the War Department. The Fund is the oldest known organization i ...
. His papers and correspondence were published in the ''Quarterly Statement'' of that British society after 1881, which also issued his booklet ''Table of the Christian and Mohammedan Eras'' in 1904; he was supplied with high quality photographic equipment to supplement his productions. Some of his collection of photographs were reproduced in his 1910 work, ''Walks about Jerusalem''; his brother and son were also active in this field. In 1907 his ''Folk-lore of the Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish'' was published in London.[
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References
Bibliography
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*(pref. 1904):
A table of the Christian and the Mohammedan eras from July 15th, A.D. 622, the date of the Hejira, to A.D. 1900
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*(1904):
Tales told in Palestine
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*(1907):
Folk-lore of the Holy Land. Moslem, Christian and Jewish
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**Alternative:
Folk-lore of the Holy Land. Moslem, Christian and Jewish
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*(1910):
Walks about Jerusalem
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1850 births
1938 deaths
Palestinian folklorists
Palestinian Anglican priests
19th-century photographers
20th-century Palestinian photographers
20th-century Palestinian male artists
Photographers in Palestine (region)
Palestinian people of Jewish descent
Clergy from Jerusalem
Burials at Mount Zion (Protestant)
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