Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth (born 1943) is a German scholar of Arabic studies and Islamic studies. She studied Persian language and literature, Semitic studies, Arabic studies and Classical Philology in Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem and Munich. After receiving her doctorate in 1972 and her habilitation in 1977, she taught at the University of Jordan and held professorships in Munich and Bamberg. From 1991 to 2014, she was Professor of Arabic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1994 to 1999, she directed the Orient-Institut of the German Oriental Society in Beirut and Istanbul. She also led the Corpus Coranicum research project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.