Background
He was born in East Prussia and studied orientalism and theology in Marburg.
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Paul Ernst
Edit ProfileOrientalist theologian university professor
Education
He studied semitic philology in Cairo between 1908 and 1918.
Career
He was a Lutheran pastor. In 1918, he was promoted to a full professorship (Ordinary professor) at Gießen University, a chair previously held by Friedrich Schwally. In 1923, he switched to Bonn University, where he developed the Eastern Studies curriculum by adding a Chinese and a Japanese class.
Kahle immigrated to England where he joined the University of Oxford in 1939, having been dismissed from his university post in Bonn, owing at least in great part to the fact that he had a Polish rabbi (Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg) as an assistant.
At Oxford he gained two further doctorates. Kahle returned to Germany after the war, where he pursued his research as Professor Emeritus.
His principal academic renown is as editor of the Hebrew Bible. Participant of his work is published in the book What the Koran Really Says, edited by Ibn Warraq.
Achievements
Membership
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
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Nationality
Germany