Background

Strohmaier, Rudolf Gotthard was born on November 4, 1934 in Zwickau, Germany. Son of Rudolf Kurt Strohmaier and Lydia Hilda Schauer.

Education

Staatsexamen, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, 1965. Habilitation, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany, 1991.

Career

Scientific assistant Academy Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1958—1999. Professor Islamic history, Greek heritage in Islam Freie University, since 1995. Sectional editor Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill Publications, Leiden, Netherlands, since 2002.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Hellas im Islam (Diskurse der Arabistik)

    (The Europeans are not the only heirs of the so-called Gre...)

  • Von Demokrit bis Dante. Die Bewahrung antiken Erbes in der arabischen Kultur
  • Avicenna

• Other Work

  • Author: Von Demokrit bis Dante, 1996, Avicenna, 1999, Hellas im Islam, 2003.

Interests

• Other Interests

  Rowing.

Connections

Married Gerlinde Friederike Wiederanders, October 10, 1980.

father:

Rudolf Kurt Strohmaier

mother:

Lydia Hilda Schauer

spouse:

Gerlinde Friederike Wiederanders