Paul Wittek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Wittek

Austrian historian

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1978

Profession: historian

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Paul Wittek (11 January 1894, Baden bei Wien — 13 June 1978, Eastcote, Middlesex) was an Austrian Orientalist and historian.
His 1938 thesis on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, known as the Ghazi thesis, argues that the Ottoman's raison d'être was the expansion of Islam.
Until the 1980s, his theory was the most influential and dominant explanation of the formation of the Ottoman Empire.