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Josef Horovitz
German Orientalist · Germany · On the map · Academics · Lived 1874 to 1931 · aged 56
Josef Horovitz was a Jewish German orientalist. A son of Markus Horovitz (1844-1910), an Orthodox rabbi, Josef Horovitz studied with Eduard Sachau at the University of Berlin and was there since 1902 as a docent.
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From 1907 to 1915, he worked in India, at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh and taught Arabic at the request of the Indian government curator for Islamic inscriptions. In this role, he prepared the collection Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica (1909-1912). After his return to Germany he was from 1914 until his death professor of Semitic languages at the Oriental Seminar of the University of Frankfurt.
