Gustav Edmund von Grunebaum

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Gustav Edmund von Grunebaum , born Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum (born September 1, 1909 in Vienna , † February 27, 1972 in Los Angeles ), was an American Arabist , orientalist and Middle Eastern expert of Austrian origin.

Life

He obtained a doctorate in oriental studies from the University of Vienna . In 1938, after the annexation of Austria , he had to emigrate to the USA, where he initially worked at the Asia Institute in New York City under Arthur Pope. From 1943 he worked at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he received a professorship for Arabic in 1949. In 1957 he became director of the newly established Near Eastern Center at the University of California. In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1968 to the American Philosophical Society . One of his most important works is his widely reprinted book on Muslim festivals.

Works

  • Muhammadan Festival. Curzon Press, London 1951
  • Medieval Islam. A study in cultural orientation. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1946
  • Criticism and poetry. Studies on Arabic literary history. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1955
  • with R. Brunschvig (Ed.): Classicism and cultural decay in Islam / Classicisme et déclin culturel dans l'histoire del'Islam ; symposium international d'histoire de la civilization musulmane. <Bordeaux 25-29 June 1956>, Besson-Chantemerle, Paris 1957
  • Modern Islam. The search for cultural identity. University of California Press, Berkeley [et al. a.] 1962
  • Islam in the Middle Ages. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich [u. a.] 1963 ( Library of the Orient )
  • Islam in its Classical Era 622–1258. Artemis Verlag, Stuttgart 1966 ( Library of the Orient )
  • Arabic literary history (as publisher), Artemis-Verlag, Zurich [u. a.] 1968
  • Studies on the cultural image and self-image of Islam. Zurich 1969
  • Propylaea world history. Volume 5, Half Volume 1: Islam: The Origin of Europe . Paperback, 1976
  • Fischer world history. Volume 15: Islam II. The Islamic empires after the fall of Constantinople , (as publisher), Fischer, Frankfurt 1999

literature

  • Franz Rosenthal : Gustave E. von Grunebaum (1909–1972) , in: Helen Damico, Joseph B. Zavadil (ed.): Medieval Scholarship. Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, Volume 1: History (= Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Volume 1350), Garland Publishing, New York 1995, ISBN 0-8240-6894-7 , pp. 325-335.
  • Robert Brunschvig: Gustave E. von Grunebaum (1909-1972) . In: Studia Islamica No. 35 (1972), pp. 2-4, JSTOR 1595473 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Gustav E. von Grunebaum. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 16, 2018 (incorrect spelling of first name).