Andreas Tietze was an Austrian scholar of

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and language.

Biography

Tietze was born on April 26, 1914, in the early months of

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to art historians

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and

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. He studied at the

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, focusing on economic history under

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, as well as East European and Balkan history and Slavic, Turkic,

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, and

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languages. He received his doctorate in 1937 with the thesis ''Die Stellungnahme der italienischen Wirtschaftstheoretiker des 17. Jahrhunderts zu den agrarischen Problemen''. Prior to receiving his doctorate, Tietze had already traveled to

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. Due to his Jewish background, the rise in

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caused him to move to Turkey in 1937. His parents relocated to the

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in 1938 for the same reason. In Turkey, Tietze accepted an offer to teach German and English at

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. While in Turkey, Tietze furthered his studies of Turkish, publishing a Turkish reader for beginners in 1943 and serving on the editorial committee for the revised edition of

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's Turkish dictionary. In 1952, Tietze's reputation as a linguist led to an invitation to the

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. In 1957 he accepted

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's invitation to join the new Near East Center at the

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. In 1974, Tietze returned to the

to direct their Oriental Institute. While there he published translated and annotated editions of Ottoman court texts and founded the journal ''Turkologischer Anzeiger'' () in an attempt to compile a bibliography of the growing number of works on

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. Tietze retired from the University of Vienna in 1984, but continued to work. At age 80 he began work on an etymological dictionary of Turkish. The first volume was published in 2002. At the time of his death in 2003, he was working on the letter "S"; the remaining volumes were published posthumously.

Selected works

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References

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