Alfred von Gutschmid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German orientalist
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Place of Birth: Loschwitz, Saxony, Germany
About Alfred von Gutschmid
- Hermann Alfred Freiherr (Baron) von Gutschmid (1 July 1835 – 2 March 1887), German historian and Orientalist, was born at Loschwitz near (Dresden). He devoted himself to the study of Eastern language and history in its pre-Greek and Hellenistic periods and contributed largely to the literature of the subject.
- After holding chairs at Kiel (1866), Königsberg (1873), and Jena (1876), he was finally appointed professor of history at Tübingen, where he remained till his death in that city.
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