Thomas Philipp (historian)

Thomas Philipp (born May 11, 1941 in Königsberg ; † June 11, 2015 in Erlangen ) was a German historian with a focus on the Arab world.

biography

After being expelled from East Prussia, Philipp studied at the Free University of Berlin from 1962 and moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1963 . He received his PhD in 1971 from the University of California, Los Angeles with a thesis on Arab nationalism.

In 1988 Philipp was appointed professor for politics and contemporary history of the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . He retired on February 1, 2009.

Philipp died at the age of 74 in 2015 after a long and serious illness.

Publications

• Gurgī Zaidān, his life and thought . Beirut 1979. ISBN 978-3-515-01842-5 .
• The Syrians in Egypt: 1725-1975 . Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 978-3-515-04031-0 .

as editor

• The Syrian land in the 18th and 19th centuries: the common and the specific in the historical experience . Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 978-3-515-05685-4 .
• The Syrian land: processes of integration and fragmentation; Bilād Al-Shām from the 18th to the 20th century . Stuttgart 1998. ISBN 978-3-515-07309-7 .
• From the Syrian land to the states of Syria and Lebanon . Würzburg 2004. ISBN 978-3-89913-353-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Philipp in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Thomas Philipp on his 65th birthday . FAU press service. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
2. ↑ About the history of the chair . FAU. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
3. ^ In memory of Thomas Philipp (forthcoming in Journal of Levantine Studies) . University of Erfurt. Retrieved November 1, 2017.