Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887 – September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, historian, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States.

In his youth he studied at the Slabodka Yeshiva under Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein. He was a professor at Harvard University for approximately half a century, and was a student and friend both of George Santayana and George Foot Moore.

He wrote works including a translation and commentary on Hasdai Crescas' Ohr Hashem, the philosophy of the church fathers, the repercussions of the Kalam on Judaism, a work on Spinoza, and an analysis of Philo.

Harvard University | American academics | Judaic studies in academia | 1887 births | 1974 deaths