Lutz Richter-Bernburg
Lutz Richter-Bernburg (* 1945 in Berlin ) is an Islamic scholar and was Director of the Department of Orient and Islamic Studies at the Asia-Orient Institute (AOI) at the University of Tübingen from 2008 until his retirement (October 1, 2010) .
In the past, Richter-Bernburg also held various positions and visiting professorships in other cities, e.g. B. in Göttingen, at the Free University Berlin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Aleppo, Cairo, Leipzig, Bonn and New York, before he returned to his first place of study in Tübingen (next to Hamburg and Göttingen) as a professor in 2000.
He is the son of the well-known geology professor Richter, who once added the name of his specialty or his special region to better distinguish himself from his colleagues. The double name Richter-Bernburg therefore has no legal marital reasons.
Lutz Richter-Bernburg received his PhD in Islamic Studies, Semitic Studies and Greek Philology in 1969 . In addition to extensive historical and literary research, Richter-Bernburg also lived in Egypt for three years . a. with human rights discourses by contemporary Muslims.
Richter-Bernburg is currently working on the Persian Ismaili scholar Naser-e Khosrou , the historian al-Ya'qûbî and the Hispano-Arab traveler Ibrâhîm b. Ya'qûb.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lutz Richter-Bernburg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Employee portrait of the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (with list of publications)
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| SURNAME | Richter-Bernburg, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |