Manfred R. Lehmann

Manfred R. Lehmann (d. 1997), born in Sweden, came to the United States in 1940. He studied under William F. Albright at Johns Hopkins University and received his graduate degree in 1946. Although he pursued a business career (he headed an international telecommunications company), he kept up his academic work and produced numerous scholarly papers. Starting in 1958, his papers on the Dead Sea Scrolls have pioneered the use of Talmudic literature to understand the scrolls. The Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation, which he headed, owns the largest private Hebrew manuscript library in the United States, representing 1,000 years of writings. He passed away in 1997.