Adolf Wahrmund (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvaːɐ̯mʊnt]; 10 June 1827 – 15 May 1913) was an Austrian-German orientalist.
From 1871 he taught Arabic at the Orientalischen Akademie in Wien (Oriental Academy of Vienna), and was at the head of that institution from 1885 until 1897.
Adolf Wahrmund was responsible for purchasing the bulk of the collection of the Austrian National Ethnographic Museum, and thus may be considered its founder.
In Das Gesetz des Nomadenthums und die heutige Judenherrschaft ("The Law of the Nomad and Today's Jewish Dominion," 1887) he systematically compares the Jews to the Arab nomads of the Arabian deserts, on the assumption, then common, that the Jews of Europe (as well as of the rest of the world) were racial relatives of the Arab Semites, and thus alien to the "Aryan" West.
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