Name David Blondheim | ||
Died March 19, 1934, Balti, Maryland, United States Education Johns Hopkins University (1910) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
David Simon Blondheim (25 August 1884 in Baltimore – 19 March 1934 in Baltimore) was a professor of Romance philology at Johns Hopkins University and a scholar of medieval Jewish texts in Romance languages.
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Early life and education
Blondheim received his A.B. in 1906 and his Ph.D. in 1910 from Johns Hopkins University. Blondheim attended Ecole des Hautes Etudes.
Career
Blondheim studied medieval Romance languages and researched medieval writings, particularly Hebraico-French texts, and is the author of many books about early translations of Jewish texts. He carried on the research of Arsene Darmesteter into rabbinical glosses.He was also a skilled editor.
A substantial survey of Blondheim's life and work appeared in Jewish Language Review (Haifa, Israel: Association for the Study of Jewish Languages), vol. 6 (1986). This issue includes biographical materials assembled by David L. Gold, pp. 185-202. The same issue includes an extensive bibliography.
Personal life
He was married twice, his second wife being Eleanor Lansing Dulles, who compiled a bibliography of his works. He committed suicide in 1934. He divorced his first wife with whom he had a son. He married Eleanor Dulles in December 1932; their son, born after his father's suicide, was named David Dulles.