{"id":76303,"date":"2026-10-04T15:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranologists.org\/?p=76303"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:02:30","slug":"76303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranologists.org\/en\/76303\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulrich Marzolph"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ulrich Marzolph is a German Iranologist and scholar of Persian folk literature. He has provided a systematic classification of Iranian tales and conducted extensive research on One Thousand and One Nights. Marzolf is also renowned for his perspectives on the images in Persian lithographed manuscripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":65509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iranologists-en","category-literature-en","category-231","category-294","description-off"],"acf":{"ZName":"Ulrich Marzolph <\/span>","LatinName":"Ulrich Marzolph <\/span>","ZCountry":["\u0622\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0646"],"ZBiography":"\u2022 Date of Birth and Death: 1953 - alive\r\n\u2022 Place of Birth: Dormagen, Germany","ZEducation":"Ulrich Marzolf was born in 1953 in Dormagen, a city in Germany. After obtaining his high school diploma, he embarked on a journey to the East, which laid the foundation for his lifelong interest and research in Iranian studies. Encouraged by Abdoldjavad Falaturi, a professor at the University of Cologne, he enrolled at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad to study Persian literature. (Ibna, 2021)\r\n\r\nIn 1981, Marzolf received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne, Germany. He served as a prominent professor of Islamic Studies at Georg August University from 1992 until the end of 2018. Marzolf studied Islamic Studies, Chinese, and Spanish languages. In 2002, he became a permanent member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 2003, he also worked as a visiting professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. (GWDG, n.d.)","ZExecutive":"Ulrich Marzolf was a member of the editorial board of the Enzyklop\u00e4die des M\u00e4rchens<\/em> (Encyclopedia of Folktales) from 1986 to 2015, an academic and publishing institution at the G\u00f6ttingen Academy of Sciences. In 2012, he was a resident researcher at Shangri-La, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art in Honolulu, Hawaii. From 2016 to 2018, he conducted a research project that resulted in the publication of a book titled 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition<\/em> (2020). He retired in 2019 (GWDG, n.d.).\r\n\r\nHis main research interest lies in the narrative culture of the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. His doctoral thesis presented a typology of Persian folk tales, and his second book, published in 1992, was a study on humorous tales in pre-Mongol Arabic literature. He devoted much of his energy to examining Persian folk literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>, and the impact of Middle Eastern narratives, both regionally and internationally. (Ibid)\r\n\r\nIn addition to his numerous publications on the narrative culture of the Islamic world\u2014especially Arabic, Persian, and Turkish folk tales\u2014Marzolf is also well known for his work on the lithographed illustrations in 19th-century Persian books. During his time at Shangri-La, he focused on researching the lithographic images in Qajar-era books. His special interest was to determine the place of lithographic illustration within the broader context of Qajar art. He sought to compare lithographic illustration with other manifestations of \"popular\" art common in the Qajar period, particularly glass painting, plaster decorations, tiles, as well as carpets and metalwork. Additionally, he aimed to accurately identify European influences and the inspiration from earlier Persian traditions in these images. A more accurate assessment of the social dimensions of art in the Qajar period is one of the key outcomes of Marzolf\u2019s research.(Shangri La, n.d.).","ZWorks":" \r\n