[1] Born in Leipzig in 1937, Stefan Wild pursued studies in Semitic languages, Islamic Studies, Egyptology, and philosophy at institutions in Munich, Yale, Erlangen, and Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1961.
[2] He began his career as an assistant at the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Oriental seminary at the University of Heidelberg.
He served as a co-editor for Bibliotheca Islamica from 1974 to 1981 and for the International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam until 2009.
[2] He became emeritus in April 2002 and was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in the same year.
In 2005, he was honored with the Helga und Edzard Reuter-Stiftung prize for his scholarly work.