Leo Aryeh Mayer

Leo Aryeh Mayer OBE (; 12 January 1895 – 6 April 1959), was an Israeli scholar of Islamic art and rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Biography Mayer was born in 1895, in the city of Stanisławów, Galicia, then in Austria-Hungary (now renamed Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine), to an eminent rabbinical hasidic family. In 1913, he went to study Eastern Art at the University of Vienna, specialising in the Muslim East and its cultural history, and also studied at the University of Lausanne and the University of Berlin. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Vienna in 1917 for an unpublished thesis on town planning in Islam. In 1958, he was awarded the Israel Prize, in the humanities. The L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, established in 1974, was founded in his memory.

Published books (partial) Excavations at the Third Wall of Jerusalem's Old City, 1930 (jointly with A.L. Sukenik)

Beginning and rise of Islamic Archeology, 1935 Annual bibliography of Islamic art and archaeology :India excepted, 1935

new Material for Mamaluk Heraldry, Jerusalem, 1937 articles in Ars Islamica, 1936-7 Bibliography of Islamic numismatics, Royal Asiatic Society, 1939, 1954 Mamaluk costume, 1952 Religious buildings of the Muslims in Israel, 1950 (jointly with Jacob Pinkerfeld and Yigael Yadin) L'art juif en terre de l'Islam, 1959 Bibliography of Jewish Art Islamic Architects and their works, 1956 Islamic Astrolabists and their works, 1956 Islamic Metalworkers and their works, 1959 Islamic Armourers and their works, 1962

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