Ludwig W. Adamec

Ludwig W. Adamec (10 March 1924 – 1 January 2019) was an Austrian scholar on the Middle East and Afghanistan. He was a professor emeritus in the School of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. He wrote and edited numerous books, including the republication of the monumental ''Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan'', which had originally been compiled but was unpublished by the government in British India. Provided by Wikipedia