Rudolf Tschudi (2 May 1884 – 11 October 1960) was a Swiss

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

, historian and Orientalist.

Life

Tschudi was born on 2 May 1884 in

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(

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and

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) as well as eastern philology in

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(where he studied under

Georg Jacob Georg Jacob (26 May 1862 – 4 July 1937) was a scholar of Islamic studies and an Orientalist. He founded Turkology as a modern academic discipline in Germany. Life Jacob studied Arabic geography at the Universität Greifswald, achieving his ''H ...

), and

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and was a member of the Schwizerhüsli Basel, Erlanger, and Tübingen

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. He then became an assistant professor in 1910 and a professor at the

Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen''), the Hamburg Coloni ...

in 1914. In 1919 he came to

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as an associate professor, and finally in 1922 to Ordinarius in Basel.

Fritz Meier Fritz Meier (10 June, 1912- 10 June, 1998) was a Swiss Orientalist with a focus on Sufism. Life Fritz Meier was born on 10 June 1912 in Basel. He grew up in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft and attended the Humanistisches Gymnasium. Beginning i ...

was among his students. Tschudi was co-editor of the book series "Turkish Library" (''Türkische Bibliothek'', published by Mayer & Müller in Berlin) and the magazine "Der Islam." His specialty was the

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and

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. Tschudi died on 11 October 1960 in Basel.

Bibliography

* * W. Behn, ''Concise biographical companion to Index Islamicus'' 3, 2004, 539.
Rudolf Tschudi
in the

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