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Place of Birth: Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
About Otto Pretzl
- Otto Pretzl (Ingolstadt, 20 April 1893 – Sevastopol, 28 October 1941) was a German Arabist-orientalist, who specialized in Koranic studies. From 1912 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and in 1920 was ordained as a priest in Freising.
- Afterwards, he studied theology and Oriental languages at the University of Munich, where he later qualified as a lecturer in Old Testament exegesis (1928) and Islamic and Semitic languages (1933).
- In 1934 he became an associate professor at the university, attaining a full professorship during the following year.
- In 1937 he became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
- He died in a plane crash in 1941.
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