Shelomo Dov Goitein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shelomo Dov Goitein

German ethnographer

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1900

Place of Birth: Burgkunstadt, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1985

Profession: historian, educator, university teacher, orientalist, ethnographer

Nationality: United States, Germany, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Shelomo Dov Goitein (April 3, 1900 – February 6, 1985) was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages, and particularly on the Cairo Geniza.