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German orientalist
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Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
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28 October 1941 (aged 48 years)
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Sevastopol, Ukraine
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48 years
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Otto Pretzl (Ingolstadt, 20 April 1893 – Sevastopol, 28 October 1941) was a German Arabist-orientalist, who specialized in Koranic studies.
From 1912 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and in 1920 was ordained as a priest in Freising. Afterwards, he studied theology and Oriental languages at the University of Munich, where he later qualified as a lecturer in Old Testament exegesis (1928) and Islamic and Semitic languages (1933). In 1934 he became an associate professor at the university, attaining a full professorship during the following year. In 1937 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He died in a plane crash in 1941.
Selected works
- Die frühislamische Attributenlehre, 1940 – Early Islamic attributes doctrine.
- Die Fortführung des Apparatus Criticus zum Koran 1934 – Continuation of the critical apparatus of the Koran.
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