Franz Rosenthal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Rosenthal

German orientalist

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1914

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 08-Apr-2003

Profession: historian, arabist, Islamicist, semitologist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Franz Rosenthal (August 31, 1914 – April 8, 2003) was the Louis M.
Rabinowitz professor of Semitic languages at Yale from 1956 to 1967 and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic, scholar of Arabic literature and Islam at Yale from 1967 to 1985.