Scholar, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He went to the USA in 1873 when his father, Gustav Gottheil, became rabbi of a New York temple. He was professor of rabbinical literature and Semitic languages at Columbia University from 1892 until his death. In 1896 he became chief of the Oriental Division of the New York Public Library, and was founder of the Federation of American Zionists.
Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1862—1936) was an American Semitic scholar. He graduated from Columbia College in 1881, and studied also in Europe, earning his doctorate at Leipzig (1904).
From 1898 to 1904 he was president of the American Federation of Zionists, and after 1904 vice president of the American Jewish Historical Society. He wrote:
The Syriac grammar of Mar Elia Zobha (1887) Selections from the Syriac Julian Romance (1906) Zionism (1914)
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