Paul Wittek
Austrian orientalist and historian
Paul Wittek was an Austrian Orientalist and historian. His 1938 thesis on the rise of the Ottoman Empire, known as the ghazi thesis, argues that the driving force behind Ottoman state-building was the expansion of Islam. Wikipedia
Born: January 11, 1894, Baden bei Wien, Austria
Died: June 13, 1978 (age 84 years), Eastcote, United Kingdom
Books: The rise of the Ottoman empire, Turkish Reader, Turkish, and more
Doctoral students: Victor Louis Ménage
Notable students: Peter Charanis, Stanford J. Shaw, Elizabeth Zachariadou
Thesis: Die Entstehung der Zenturienordnung. Studie zur ältesten römischen Sozial- und Verfassungsgeschichte (1920)