Johann Fück

Johann W. Fück (born July 8, 1894 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 24, 1974 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German orientalist .

From 1913 he studied classical and Semitic philology at the universities of Halle , Berlin and Frankfurt . From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the German National People's Party DNVP . His doctorate took place in Frankfurt in 1921, where he taught at the Oriental Seminary from 1921 to 1930 ( Hebrew ) and 1935 to 1938 ( Arabic and Islamic studies ) and also completed his habilitation in 1929.

In the meantime, from 1930 to 1935, he was a professor at Dhaka University .

In 1938 Fück went to the University of Halle, where he stayed until his retirement in 1962. In Halle he was also director of the library of the German Oriental Society . Since 1948 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Works (selection)

• Muhammad ibn Ishaq (dissertation, 1926)
• Arabiya: Studies on the Arabic language and Style history (1950)
• Arab Studies in Europe from the 12th to the Early 19th Century. In: Richard Hartmann and Helmuth Scheel (eds.): Contributions to Arabic, Semitic and Islamic studies. Leipzig 1944.
• Lectures on Islam . From the estate, ed. by Sebastian Günther , Institute for Oriental Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1999 , as issue 27 of Halle's Contributions to Oriental Studies .

Web links

• Entry on Johann Fück in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Literature by and about Johann Fück in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for Johann Fück by Werner Ende (PDF file; 465 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 96.