An English translation by Ralph Manheim is available from Princeton University Press under the title Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time.
During this period, he published Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen und ihre Werke ("Historians of the Ottoman Empire").
[1] The work became the standard bibliographical review of Ottoman historiography and confirmed the reputation of Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität as a leading center for Near East studies.
However, the Romanian statesman, academic and polymath Nicolae Iorga, himself a widely respected historian of the Ottoman Empire, invited Babinger to take up a position in Bucharest, which he held until he was ordered out of the country in 1943.
Babinger knew Turkish, Romanian and Arabic as well as the principal European languages,[3] giving his work a scope and authority that had hitherto rarely been displayed in Near Eastern studies.