Gerhard Höpp

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Gerhard Höpp (born February 4, 1942 in Berlin ; † December 7, 2003 there ) was an East German orientalist and Islamic scholar .

After the war, his parents lived with him from 1945 to 1950, initially in Arnstadt , where he started school. He graduated from high school in Berlin in 1960 and then worked at the Oberspree cable factory .

In 1962 he began studying Arabic and Islamic studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . Among the professors who shaped him were Lothar Rathmann (who founded the " Leipzig School " and who worked on the history of the Arabs in its collective Höpp ) and Wolfgang Reuschel as well as Kurt Rudolph and Ernst Weber. After his diploma thesis on Islamic modernism with Khalid Muhammad Khalid, Höpp worked at the Oriental Institute in Leipzig from 1966, after receiving his doctorate in 1972 (on class struggle and national liberation movement) and briefly editing in South Yemen, then from 1973 initially as an Arabic translator for the General German Intelligence Service the GDR in Iraq and Syria .

In 1975 Höpp became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , completed his habilitation in 1986 on the Arab Nationalist Movement and, after reunification, from 1992 devoted himself to research on the Modern Orient . His numerous publications on standard and specialist topics (with Martin Robbe among others ) also include the entertaining Berlin city ​​guide for orientalists .

From 1996 until his death he was a research assistant at the Center for the Modern Orient .

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  1. ↑ The former was a member, then dissident, of the Wafd party : Khalid in the Gale Encyclopedia of the Mideast and North Africa
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SURNAME Höpp, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East German orientalist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2003
Place of death Berlin