Hans Ludwig Gottschalk

Hans Ludwig Gottschalk (born March 24, 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † July 17, 1981 in Salzburg ) was an Arabist .

Life

He was born in 1904 as the son of the philosophy professor Jonas Cohn and his wife Elise Ebstein. In 1922 he changed his name after he had been baptized and intended to study Protestant theology - since, as his mother Elise advised him, a Jewish priest's name did not go well with a Protestant pastor. He studied ancient history, Arabic and Islamic studies in Freiburg, Berlin, Tübingen and Munich . One of his academic teachers was Gotthelf Bergstrasse , with whom he received his doctorate in Munich in 1929. He was released under the Nazi regime in 1933 and worked as a private scholar in Freiburg. From 1938 to 1948 he was curator of the Mingana Collection in Birmingham. He took his parents there in March 1939. He then taught Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Vienna from 1948 to 1974, and since 1962 as a full professor.

Works (selection)

• The Mādarāʼijjūn , de Gruyter, Berlin 1931.
• Al-Malik Al-Kāmil of Egypt and his time, a study of the history of the Middle East and Egypt in the first half of the 7th / 13th centuries Century , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1958.
• The reception of the ancient sciences by Islam , Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965.

literature

• Arne A. Ambros: Hans L. Gottschalk (1904–1981) . In: Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient . 74 (1982), p. 7.
• Walter Dostal: Hans Ludwig Gottschalk . In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the year 1983. No. 133 (1983), pp. 387–389.
• Herbert Eisenstein : Obituary for Hans Ludwig Gottschalk . In: Archive for Orient Research. 28 (1981-1982), p. 275.
• Jürgen W. Weil: Hans Ludwig Gottschalk (1904–1981) , in: Der Islam. 59 (1982), pp. 189f. doi : 10.1515 / islm.1982.59.2.189

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Ludwig Gottschalk in the catalog of the German National Library