Stephen S. Wise’s Ph.D.
While the late R. Stephen S. Wise is well known for his role as a Zionist activist and his role as a leader during the Shoah (see here for the controversy regarding his actions), what people may not know about him is that for his Ph.D. Wise translated Solomon ibn Gabirol’s Arabic treatise “The Improvement of the Moral Qualities” from a manuscript found at the Bodleian Library at Oxford (this fact is included in his Wikipedia entry). In his introduction Wise writes that he has also collated four Hebrew manuscripts of the work and “expects to edit in the near future a Hebrew version of the ‘Ethics’.” Wise’s edition of Gabirol’s work, which includes an introduction, translation, the Arabic text, and a preface to the Hebrew translation can be found in pdf here (no. 108) and is also soon to be reprinted.