Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr

Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr
Born (1938-08-02) August 2, 1938
Essen, Germany
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineNear Eastern studies
Sub-discipline
  • Iranian linguistics
  • Iranian literature
  • Iranian religion
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr (born 2 August 1938 in Essen) is a retired professor from the University of Michigan, where he taught in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He graduated from the Cologne Center of Language Sciences at the University of Cologne in 1962, in Iranian studies from the University of Tehran in 1961, and in Islamic studies, Iranian studies, and linguistics from the University of Hamburg in 1965.