Professor Rudolf Kayser, for years a distinguished authority on the German language and literature, and author of many works of Jewish interest, including studies of Yehuda Halevi and Spinoza, died here this weekend. He was 74.
Born on Germany, Dr. Kayser came to this country in 1935, and became an American citizen in 1940. His first wife, now deceased, was Ilsa Einstein, daughter of Prof. Albert. Einstein. He lectured on Germanic languages and literature and on philosophy at Brandeis University from 1951 to 1957 and, for the last six years, taught at Hunter College on a part time basis. At his death, he was at work on a study of the philosophy of languages.
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