Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum (1 September 1909 in Vienna, Austria – 27 February 1972 in Los Angeles, California, born Gustav Edmund Ritter von Grünebaum[1]) was an Austrian historian and Arabist.

When Nazi Germany absorbed Austria in the Anschluss of 1938, he went to the United States, where he was given a position at the Asia Institute in New York City by Arthur Upham Pope, an eminent authority on Persian art and antiquities who used the institute to help a number of displaced German scholars find work in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.

[2] In 1943, he moved on to the University of Chicago, and was made professor of Arabic in 1949.

[3][4] He died in Los Angeles at the age of 62 following brief battle with cancer.

The Near Eastern Center was later renamed in Grunebaum's honor.