Yohanan Levi

Yohanan Levi
יוחנן לוי
Born	1901 (age 122–123) Berlin, German Empire
Died	20 July 1945(1945-07-20) (aged 43–44) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Mandatory Palestine
Occupation(s)	Linguist, historian, professor
Awards	Israel Prize (1957, posthumously)
Academic background
Education	Ph.D., Berlin University (1926)
Academic work
Discipline	Hebrew linguistics, history
Sub-discipline	Second Temple period
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yohanan Levi (Hebrew: יוחנן לוי; 1901 – 20 July 1945) was a Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period.

Biography

Levi was born in Berlin, Germany in 1901. He studied at Berlin University and received a doctorate in 1926. He emigrated to Mandate Palestine (now Israel) in 1934 and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was professor of Roman language and literature. He died, age 44, in 1945. A number of his articles were collected by his students and published some fifteen years after his death.

Awards

• In 1957, Levi was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize, for the humanities.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients
• Levi