Samuel Landauer was a German Jewish Orientalist and librarian.

He received his education at the yeshibah of Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt

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 (Hungary), the gymnasium of Mainz

Mainz

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, and the universities of Leipzig

Leipzig

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, Strasbourg

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, and Munich

Munich

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 (Ph.D. 1872). In 1875 he became privat-docent of Semitic languages at the University of Strasburg, and was appointed librarian there in 1884. In 1894 he received the title of Professor.

Landauer published:

• "Psychologie des Ibn Sinâ," 1872
• "Sa'adja's Kitâb al-Amânât," Leyden, 1880
• "Katalog der Kaiserlichen Universität- und Landesbibliothek Strasburg, Orientalische Handschriften," 1881
• "Firdusi Schahname," Leyden, 1884
• "Die Handschriften der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe, Orientalische Handschriften," 1892
• "Die Masorah zum Onkelos," Amsterdam, 1896
• "Themistius 'De cælo'" (for the Aristoteles Commission of the Berlin Academy), Berlin, 1902.

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