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.