Robert Lachmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German musciologist
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Robert Lachmann
- Robert Lachmann (28 November 1892 in Berlin – 8 May 1939 in Jerusalem) a German ethnomusicologist, polyglot (German, English, French, Arabic), musicologist, orientalist and library official.
- Expert in the music of the Orient, a member of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology and one of its founding fathers. Robert Lachmann arrived to Palestine in April 1935, after he had been dismissed from his position at the Berlin National Library, following the Nazis' rise to power.
- He came to Jerusalem at the invitation of Judah L.
- Magnes, chancellor and later president (1935–1948) of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem to establish a center of Oriental music and the "Archive for Oriental Music". He participated in the 1932 Cairo Congress of Arab Music.
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