Lutz Ilisch

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Lutz Ilisch (* 1950 in Billerbeck ) is a German Arabist and numismatist . His older brother is the historian and numismatist Peter Ilisch .

Life

After attending school in Münster, Lutz Ilisch studied Arabic / Islamic studies , prehistory and early history as well as historical auxiliary sciences (with a focus on numismatics ) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster . In 1979 he obtained his Magister Artium degree with a thesis on gift coins and coin gifts in the Islamic world . In 1985 the doctorate followed with a thesis on the history of the Artuqid rule of Mardin between Mamluks and Mongols from 1260 to 1410.

As a student of Peter Berghaus , he was temporarily involved in the work on the international project Corpus Nummorum Saeculorum IX-XI qui in Suecia reperti sunt , the directory of the Viking Age treasures from Sweden , which also contained a large number of coins from the Islamic world . Since 1985 he has been an employee of the Münzen und Medalen AG in Basel while teaching at the universities in Basel and Freiburg .

After taking over the collection of the American Steven Album and founding the Research Center for Islamic Numismatics in Tübingen , he became its director in 1990. In this role he built the collection into one of the world's leading collections of currency in the Islamic world from the beginnings to the premodern. Today's collection - Islamic Coins ( Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT ) - now includes 60,000 coins that are published in the Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen series . The Palestine Volumes. IVa Bilad as-Sam I and Gazna / Kabul. XIVd Hurasan IV were awarded the prizes for the best publication of the year by the English Royal Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Society .

In addition to teaching numismatic and Islamic studies at the University of Tübingen, he is also commissioned there to teach numismatic and history of the country.

In the Numismatic Commission of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany , he was an assessor for Islamic numismatics.

Awards

In 2017 he received the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in London .

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of the Artuqid rule of Mardin between the Mamluks and Mongols 1260–1410 AD. Münster 1984, (Münster, University, dissertation, 1985).
  • Bilad as-Sam I. (= Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen. A = 1: Palestine. 4). Wasmuth, Tübingen et al. 1993, ISBN 3-8030-1100-0 .
  • Coin gifts and gift coins in the medieval Islamic world. In: Munster Numismatic Newspaper. Vol. 14, No. 2, 1984, ZDB -ID 628733-5 , pp. 7-12; Vol. 14, No. 3, 1984, pp. 15-24; Vol. 14, No. 3, 1984, pp. 27-34; Vol. 15, No. 1, 1985, pp. 7-12.
  • as editor with Sönke Lorenz , Willem B. Stern and Heiko Steuer : Dirham and Rappenpfennig. 2 volumes. Habelt, Bonn 2003-2004;
    • Volume (1): Medieval coinage in mining regions. Series of analyzes (= Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages. Supplement. 17). 2003, ISBN 3-7749-3086-4 ;
    • Volume 2: Medieval coinage in south-west Germany (= Journal for Archeology of the Middle Ages. Supplement. 19). 2004, ISBN 3-7749-3299-9 .
  • The imitative solidi mancusi. In: Reiner Cunz (Ed.): Fundamenta Historiae. History in the mirror of numismatics and its related sciences. Festschrift for Niklot Klüßendorf for his 60th birthday on February 10, 2004 (= publications of the Prehistoric Collections of the State Museum in Hanover. 51). Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 2004, ISBN 3-87707-624-6 , pp. 91-105.

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personal data
SURNAME Ilisch, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Billerbeck