August Fischer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German orientalist and philologist
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Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About August Fischer
- August Fischer (14 February 1865 in Halle an der Saale – 14 February 1949 in Leipzig) was a German orientalist. From 1883 to 1889 he studied theology and Oriental philology at the universities of Berlin, Marburg and Halle, receiving his doctorate with a thesis on the source biographies of Ibn Ishaq, Biographien von Gewährsmännern des Ibn Ishaq.
- In 1890 he obtained his habilitation for Oriental philology at the University of Halle, and several years later became an associate professor in Berlin.
- From 1900 to 1930 he was a full professor of Oriental philology at the University of Leipzig, where in 1914/15 he served as dean to the faculty of philosophy.
- For several years he was secretary of the philological-history group at the Saxon Academy of Sciences of Leipzig (1926–32).
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