Babinger, Franz, 1891-1967
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Name (Latin)
Babinger, Franz, 1891-1967
Name (Arabic)
بابنگر، فرانس
Other forms of name
Babinger, Franz Carl Heinrich, 1891-1967
Date of birth
1891
Date of death
1967
Field of activity
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Occupation
Historians
Middle East specialists
Associated Language
ger
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- LCN
Wikipedia description:
Franz Babinger (15 January 1891 – Durrës, 23 June 1967) was a well-known German orientalist and historian of the Ottoman Empire, best known for his biography of the great Ottoman emperor Mehmed II, known as "the Conqueror", originally published as Mehmed der Eroberer und seine Zeit. An English translation by Ralph Manheim is available from Princeton University Press under the title Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time.
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