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Hans Ludwig Gottschalk

هانس لودفيغ غوتشالك

Notable figure 1904–1981 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 640; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 428 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 102098581): Gottschalk, Hans Ludwig (1904–1981)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom and Austria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Vienna (1948); manuscript cataloguer

Biography

Born in Freiburg, he studied Latin and Greek there and in Berlin, took his doctorate in Arabic studies at Munich, and was an assistant at Hamburg. During the Second World War he looked after the Oriental manuscripts of the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham and worked on the fourth volume of their catalogue of Islamic Arabic manuscripts. In 1948 he took the chair of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Vienna. He wrote on Abu ʿUbayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam and Arabic biographical writing (1936).