Biography[edit]

Julius was born to Jakob Guttmann (1845–1919) while Jakob served as Chief Rabbi at Hildesheim during the years 1874 to 1892, when Hildesheim still had a large Jewish population. Jakob himself published papers on a number of philosophical topics. The family moved to Breslau in 1880.


Julius received his basic training at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and the University of Breslau. He was lecturer at Breslau from 1910 to 1919, and Lecturer at the Hochschule for the Academic Study of Judaism (The Reform Seminary) in Berlin from 1919 to 1934. At that time, he became Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Hebrew University, a position which he held until his death.

Chiwi al-Balkhi

Saadia ben Joseph

Isaac Israeli

Solomon ibn Gabirol

Bahya ibn Paquda

Yehuda Halevy

Abraham ibn Daud

Moses Maimonides

Levi ben Gerson

Chasdai Crescas

Moses Mendelssohn

Spinoza

Solomon Formstecher

Samuel Hirsch

Nachman Krochmal

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim

Moritz Lazarus

Hermann Cohen

Franz Rosenzweig

whose English language history of medieval Jewish philosophy bears similarities to Guttmann's Philosophies of Judaism.

Isaac Husik

, Leon (1999) [1962], Is there a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals, London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Roth

, R. J. Zwi (1964). "Introduction". Philosophies of Judaism: The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. vii–x.

Werblowsky

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Julius Guttmann