Mittwoch, Eugen

(1876-1942)

   German orientalist. He was born in Schrimm. He helped Paul Nathan to set up a school system in Palestine under the auspices of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden. He taught at the universities of Berlin and Greifswald, and in 1919 became a professor at the Seminary for Oriental Languages in Berlin, where he was eventually appointed director. In 1933 he directed the office of the Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin and in 1939 moved to England. He published studies of the influence of Jewish prayer on the liturgy of Islam, Hebrew epigraphy, and Islamic art and politics.