Josef Markwart

He specialized in Turkish and Iranian Studies and the history of the Middle East.

[1][2][3] The Encyclopædia Iranica wrote that "His books are full of profound and nearly inexhaustible erudition, revealing that their author was a learned historian, philologist, geographer, and ethnologist.

[4] In 1902 he was appointed to the position of assistant professor for languages of the Christian Orient at Leiden University.

He taught in Berlin for the remainder of his life, even giving a noon lecture on the day of his death in 1930.

The Encyclopædia Iranica stated that this paralleled "his tendency to make use of an idiosyncratic orthography in his writings.