Werner Caskel

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Melaten Cemetery Tomb (2018)

Werner Max Theodor Caskel (born March 5, 1896 in Danzig ; † January 28, 1970 in Cologne ) was a German historian , professor of oriental philology and author of historical works.

Caskel received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1924 and completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1928 . From 1930 to 1938 he was a private lecturer in Greifswald . In the 1930s he worked with Erich Bräunlich (1892-1945) and Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) at the "Orient Research Institute" in Berlin on the research field on the historical development of the Bedouins. From 1939 this research group published the four-volume work "Die Beduinen". The last joint volume appeared in 1943. In 1946 Werner Caskel accepted an appointment at the Humboldt University in Berlin and from 1948 until his retirement in 1964 he taught at the University of Cologne . Caskel's work focused on Islamic history and genealogy .

Caskel married Emma Anna "Emmy" Happ (1901–1988) in Berlin in 1930. He died in 1970 at the age of 73 in Cologne University Hospital . The couple's grave is located in the Melaten cemetery (hall 117).

Works (selection)

  • Lihyan and Lihyan. Working group for research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Humanities 4. Köln u. a. 1954
  • The Bedouins , together with Max von Oppenheim , 1939–1944
  • Ǧamharat an-nasab. The genealogical work of Hišām ibn Muḥammad al-Kalbī . Volume I: Introduction by Werner Caskel; the tablets by Gert Strenziok. Volume II: Explanations of the panels by Werner Caskel; The register, started by Gert Strenziok, completed by Werner Caskel. Brill, Leiden 1966

literature

  • Erwin Gräf (Ed.): Festschrift Werner Caskel for his 70th birthday, March 5, 1966. Dedicated by friends and colleagues. Students . Brill-Verlag, Leiden 1968 (with a portrait of Werner Caskel).
  • Hanisch, Ludmilla: The successors of the exegetes, German-speaking research into the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century , Harrassowitz, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-447-04758-6 , p. 182.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 419 from January 30, 1970, registry office Cologne West. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ursula Moortgat-Correns, biography about Max von Oppenheim, Neue Deutsche Biographie Volume 19, 1998, p. 562f.
personal data
SURNAME Caskel, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caskel, Werner Max Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, professor of oriental philology and author of historical works
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1970
Place of death Cologne