While walking in a Frankfurt Street on his way to the University, Professor Joseph Horowitz had a heart attack and died.
Professor Horowitz, who was 57 years of age, was born at Lauenburg, in Pomerania, where his father was Rabbi. From 1906 to 1914 he was professor of Arabic at the Moslem Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh, in British India. He was called in 1914 to the newly-founded Frankfurt University as Professor of Semitic Philology. He was a member of the Curatorium of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Visiting Director of its School of Oriental Studies.
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