In her #ThursdayColloquium Sabine Schmidtke deals with the last and mostly forgotten generation of students, who were trained by representatives of the Wissenschaft des Judentums in Germany, but contributed primarily to Islamic and Arabic studies. This later generation often replaced the ideals of the Wissenschaft des Judentums with those of Zionism, and were far more interested in Islamic and Arabic studies than Jewish studies. By way of example, the cases of Martin Schreiner, Eugen Mittwoch, and Walter Gottschalk will be briefly discussed.
Her recent monograph: Martin Schreiner between Islamic Studies and “Wissenschaft des Judentums”: Reconstructing His Scholarly Biography (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024), see here.
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The image is a collage composed of Schreiner’s portrait, taken in 1892, with dedication to Goldziher (Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Oriental Collection, Goldziher 142/49, recto and verso); and the following items from the Martin Schreiner Archive, National Library of Israel: ARC. Ms. Var. 347 04 02, ARC. Ms. Var. 347 04 04, and ARC. Ms. Var. 347 01 24. All images were provided by courtesy of the respective copyright holders.