Gustave E. von Grunebaum | |
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 Portrait of Gustave Grunebaum | |
| Born | Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum 1 September 1909 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 27 February 1972 (aged 62) Los Angeles, California |
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum (1 September 1909 in Vienna, Austria – 27 February 1972 in Los Angeles, California, born Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum[1]) was an Austrian historian and Arabist.
Born in Vienna, Grunebaum received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna in 1931 with a dissertation on classical Arabic poetry. When Nazi Germany absorbed Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, he went to the United States, where he was given a position at the Asia Institute in New York City by Arthur Upham Pope, an eminent authority on Persian art and antiquities who used the institute to help a number of displaced German scholars find work in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.[2] In 1943, he moved on to the University of Chicago, and was made professor of Arabic in 1949. In 1957, Grunebaum was appointed professor of Near Eastern History and the director of a new department called the Near Eastern Center at UCLA. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and the American Philosophical Society in 1968.[3][4] He died in Los Angeles at the age of 62 following brief battle with cancer. The Near Eastern Center was later renamed in Grunebaum's honor.[5]
Grunebaum was married to Giselle Steuerman.
- ^ Österreichische Soziologinnen und Soziologen im Exil 1933 bis 1945 Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Arthur Upham Pope papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
- ^ "Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
- ^ "Home .::. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies". www.international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-13.