Henry Malter

Born in the village of Banse, near Żabno, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in Poland), Henry Malter received a doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1894 and rabbinical ordination from the Berlin Hochschule in 1898. In his dissertation at Heidelberg, Malter wrote about the influence of al-Ghazzali, the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher, on Jewish thought. Moving to the United States, Malter received a position teaching medieval philosophy and Arabic at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. In 1909, he moved to Philadelphia to serve as professor of Talmud at the newly formed Dropsie College, a position he held until his death.