Harald Motzki
Harald Motzki was a German-trained Islamic scholar who wrote on the transmission of hadith. He received his doctorate in Islamic Studies in 1978 from the University of Bonn. He was a professor of Islamic Studies at Nijmegen University in the Netherlands.
Motzki had been called by fellow scholar of Islam, Christopher Melchert, "the undisputed dean of hadith studies".
Motzki died on February 8, 2019.