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SPULER, Bertold (b.

Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 December ; d. Among his many publications are important works on the history of the Iranian lands from the 7th century CE onwards. Spuler spent his childhood and youth in Karlsruhe, a provincial capital in southwest Germany. The city served until as the seat of the Grand-Duchy of Baden. His mother, the former Natalena Lindner , had been raised in Silesia, most of which is today part of Poland.

Franz Babinger (), a German scholar publishing on Ottoman history, worked outside the mainstream of Oriental philology of his time.

The family belonged to the Old Catholic Church which rejected the doctrine of papal infallibility and had therefore split from the Roman Catholic Church in the s. Spuler was an active member of the Old Catholic Church throughout his life Busse, p. As a teenager Spuler lived through the economic and political turmoils of the s which followed the German defeat in World War I.

He received a humanist education, with a focus on Latin and Greek, at the Bismarck Gymnasium in Karlsruhe. Spuler had a remarkable facility in picking up languages, and so he learned as a schoolboy Russian, Polish, and Hebrew, as well as French, English, Italian, and Spanish. From until , in the traditional manner of the time, Spuler studied at several German universities to obtain a thorough education in Classical philology, history, Slavic languages, and Islamic studies.

He began his studies in Heidelberg , moved on to Munich , though he spent the summer term of in Hamburg, and concluded his academic training in Breslau Wroclaw, Poland. Ellinger, p. Spuler, ; Rohde, pp. Spuler, ; Sellheim; Ellinger, pp. At the age of 24 Spuler defended in Breslau his doctoral dissertation on European diplomacy in Istanbul until the peace treaty between the Habsburg and the Ottoman empires.