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| Born | Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum (1909-09-01)1 September 1909 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 27 February 1972(1972-02-27) (aged 62) Los Angeles, California |
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum (1 September 1909 inVienna, Austria – 27 February 1972 inLos Angeles, California, bornGustav EdmundRitter von Grünebaum[1]) was an Austrianhistorian andArabist.
Born inVienna, Grunebaum received hisPh.D. in Oriental Studies at theUniversity of Vienna in 1931 with a dissertation on classical Arabic poetry. WhenNazi Germany absorbed Austria in theAnschluss of 1938, he went to the United States, where he was given a position at the Asia Institute inNew York City byArthur 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 theUniversity 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 atUCLA. He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963 and theAmerican 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.
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