Harry Austryn Wolfson '11, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy emeritus, died Thursday at Stillman Infirmary. He was 86.
Renowned as one of the world's foremost scholars in comparative religion and philosophy, Wolfson completed major works on Crescas, Aristotle, Spinoza, Philo and Christian philosophers from Paul to Augustine.
His 12-volume "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza" and two-volume "The Philosophy of the Church Fathers" remain definitive works in their respective fields.
The former curator of the Hebraica and Judaica collection in the College Library was born in the village of Austryn in a Polish province of Russia, and emigrated to the United States in 1903.
Wolfson joined the Harvard faculty in 1915.
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