Leopold Lucas Prize 2015 awarded to Angelika Neuwirth

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16.04.2015

The Protestant faculty of the University of Tübingen honours cultural scientist and Quran-expert Angelika Neuwirth, a renowned professor of Arabic Studies. For many years, Angelika Neuwirth taught at the faculty for Arabic studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked in central locations of the Eastern Mediterranean area. Her scientific works include fundamental articles on the Quran and Quran-exegesis, analyses of modern Arabic literature of the Levant, and research into Palestinian poetry as well as literature on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Neuwirth enjoys a high international reputation and actively contributes to the dialogue between Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

The Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize honours outstanding achievements in the fields of theology, the humanities, history and philosophy. It is awarded to advocates of tolerance and those who advance the relationships between individuals and peoples.

Former recipients include Schalom Ben-Chorin (1974), Karl Raimund Popper (1981), Fritz Stern and Hans Jonas (1984), Paul Ricoeur (1989), Richard von Weizsäcker (2000), Moshe Zimmermann (2002), Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (2005), Seyla Benhabib (2012) and Giorgio Agamben (2013).

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Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth, born in 1943, has been professor of Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 1991, in addition to heading the research project Corpus Coranicum – text documentation and historical-critical commentary on the Koran – at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Angelika Neuwirth studied Arabic studies, Semitic studies and classical philology at the Free University of Berlin as well as in Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem and Munich. After her postdoctoral qualification as a university lecturer, she worked as a guest professor at the University of Jordan in Amman from 1977 to 1983. From 1994 to 1999, she was the director of the German Oriental Society’s Orient Institute Beirut and Istanbul.

Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth, born in 1943, has been professor of Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 1991, in addition to heading the...