Samuel Landauer (22 February 1846 at Hürben, Bavaria – 1937 in

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) was a German Jewish orientalist and librarian. He received his education at the Yeshiva of

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(Hungary), the gymnasium of

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, and the universities of

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, and

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(Ph.D. 1872). In 1875, he became ''

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'' of Semitic languages at the

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, and was appointed librarian there in 1884. In 1894, he received the title of Professor. Landauer published: *''Psychologie des Ibn Sinâ'', 1872 *''Sa'adja's Kitâb al-Amânât'', Leyden, 1880 *''Katalog der Kaiserlichen Universität- und Landesbibliothek Strasburg, Orientalische Handschriften'', 1881 *''Firdusi Schahname'', Leyden, 1884 *''Die Handschriften der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, Orientalische Handschriften'', 1892 *''Die Masorah zum Onkelos'', Amsterdam, 1896 *''Themistius 'De cælo' '' (for the Aristoteles Commission of the Berlin Academy), Berlin, 1902.

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