Jewish philosophy and Kabbalistic scholarship

Adolphe Franck

1809 – 1893

Adolphe Franck was a French-Jewish philosopher and member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques who held the chair of natural and international law at the Collège de France. His landmark work La Kabbale (1843) was the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of Kabbalistic philosophy in modern Europe, introducing Jewish mysticism to a broad academic audience and demonstrating the Kabbalah's coherence as a philosophical system.