Birgitt Hoffmann
Humanities and Cultural Studies
University of Bamberg
Germany
Biography
Birgitt Hoffmann is Professor from Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Bamberg. 1974-79 studied Islamic studies (with the languages ​​Arabic, Persian and Turkish), German philology (old and new department) and folklore at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg; academic teachers: Roemer, Fragner, Haarmann, Glassen, Matuz, Gramlich and others, 1979 Master's degree in Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, 1979-84 Research associate at the Oriental Seminar of the University of Freiburg, 1985 Doctorate, University of Freiburg, 1985-89 Research Assistant at the Institute for Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 1989-95 Research Assistant at the Department of Iranian Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, 1995 Habilitation, 1995-96 assistant professor at the Department of Iranian Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg, 1996-97 Representation of a professorship for Islamic Studies and Arabic Studies at the University of Würzburg, 1997-2005 Professorship for Islamic Studies at the Oriental Seminar of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, since 2005 holder of the Chair for Iranian Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Research Interest
Iranian
Publications
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Bamberger Orient Studies . Hale Lale Behzadi, Patrick Franke, Geoffrey Haig, Christoph Herzog, Birgitt Hoffmann, Lorenz Korn and Susanne Talabardon. Bamberger Orient Studies. 1. Bamberg: Bamberg University Press 2014.
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From bookstore and library. Manuscript cultures of the Middle Ages in Orient and Occident. Lectures by the Center for Medieval Studies of the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. Hg. Lorenzkorn, Birgitt Hoffmann, Stefanie Stricker. Bamberg: University Press 2014.
