Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum (1 September 1909 in Vienna, Austria – 27 February 1972 in Los Angeles, Cal., born Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum[1]) was an Austrian historian and Arabist.

Portrait of Gustave Grunebaum

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.

Notes
  1. 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
  2. "archives.nypl.org -- Arthur Upham Pope papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  3. "Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
  5. "Home .::. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies". www.international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-13.

Books
  • 1937, Islam and medieval Hellenism: social and cultural perspectives
  • 1953, Medieval Islam
  • 1955, In Search of Wealth: A Study of the Emergence of Commercial Operations in the Melanesian Society of Southeastern Papua (co-authored with Cyril S Belshaw and Joe Ben Wheat)
  • 1964, Modern Islam: The Search for Cultural Identity
  • 1964, French African literature: some cultural implications
  • 1964, Parallelism, Convergence, and Influence in the Relations of Arab and Byzantine Philosophy, Literature, and Piety
  • 1965, Islam: experience of the holy and concept of man
  • 1971, Theology and law in Islam
  • 1971, Arabic poetry. Theory and development (editor)
  • 1981 (reprint), Themes in medieval Arabic literature
  • 2003, Instruction of the Student: The Method of Learning (co-authored with Burhān al-Dīn Zarnūjī and Theodora Mead Abel)
  • 2005 (reprint), Classical Islam: A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D., 1972
  • 2008 (reprint), Mohammedan Festivals
  • 2011 (reprint), A Tenth Century Document of Arabic Literary Theory and Criticism: The Sections on Poetry of Al-Baqillani's I'jaz Al-Qur'an

Articles
  • 'Toynbee’s Concept of Islamic Civilization’ in Gargan, Edward T., ed., The Intent of Toynbee’s History : A Cooperative Appraisal (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1955).


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