Hans-Georg von Mutius

Hans-Georg von Mutius (born September 25, 1951 in Hanover ) is a German Judaist . Until 2015 he was head of Arabic and Jewish studies at the Middle East Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Life

Mutius studied Protestant theology, Jewish and oriental studies in Bochum and Cologne from 1970 to 1977, a. a. with Johann Maier at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies. He has two doctorates: In Bochum he received his doctorate in Protestant theology in 1976 with a thesis on "The Correspondences between the Arabic Pentateuch translation of Saadja Ben Josef Al-Fajjumi and the Targum of Onkelos" and then (1977) at the University of Cologne in philosophy with a Work on the "Cainite family tree: Genesis 4/17 - 24 in Jewish and Christian exegesis". Mutius stayed at the University of Cologne, where he completed his habilitation in Jewish studies in 1981 . On January 25, 1984, he was the target of a pistol attack by a former student in which Hermann Greive was killed and Johann Maier was injured. The shot fired at Mutius missed him.

In 1986 he received a professorship at the Institute for Semitic Studies at LMU Munich. After the merger of the Institute for History and Culture of the Middle East and Turkic Studies with the Institute for Semitic Studies to form the Institute for the Near and Middle East, Mutius became head of the Jewish Studies department, in which he also taught, and also took over the management of the Arabic Studies department.

Web links

• Literature by Hans-Georg von Mutius in the catalog of the German National Library