Paul Kraus (Arabist)

<p>Eliezer Paul Kraus, 11 December 1904 – 10 or 12 October 1944, was a <a href="/facts/Jewish/T9Y4wE6A">Jewish</a> <a href="/facts/Arabist/3dSJU6dL">Arabist</a> born in <a href="/facts/Prague/txpRNTUE">Prague</a>. He is the author of a number of seminal works on early <a href="/facts/Arabic_philosophy/QSzAKr2j">Arabic philosophy</a>, with a special focus on <a href="/facts/Alchemy_and_chemistry_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world/NgsIdELq">Arabic alchemy and chemistry</a>. Some of his writings on this subject are still standard reference works in the field today.
</p><p>Having been educated in Prague and <a href="/facts/Berlin%2c_Germany/pMTIRNXK">Berlin</a> (where he studied under <a href="/facts/Julius_Ruska/BK4A9wmB">Julius Ruska</a>), the rise of the <a href="/facts/Nazis/JjsMI4lE">Nazis</a> in 1930s Germany forced him to move first to <a href="/facts/Paris%2c_France/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> and later to <a href="/facts/Cairo/dXjj60ar">Cairo</a>, where he died in 1944. He allegedly committed suicide or, according to family claims, was politically assassinated.
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