Fritz Krenkow

{{short description|German orientalist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Fritz Johann Heinrich Krenkow

| birth_date = 12 August 1872

| birth_place = Schönberg, Mecklenburg, Germany

| death_date = 7 June 1952{{cite journal |last1=Spies |first1=Otto |title=Fritz Krenkow Ein Nachruf |journal=Der Islam |date=1954 |volume=31 |issue=2–3 |pages=228–236 |doi=10.1515/islm.1954.31.2-3.228 |trans-title=Fritz Krenkow An obituary |language=German}}

| death_place = Cambridge, England

| nationality = German
British (naturalised 1911)

| occupation = Hosier
Arabic scholar

| spouse = Ada Rose Beardsall
Ann Savidge

| relatives = D. H. Lawrence (nephew-in-law)}}

Fritz Johann Heinrich Krenkow ({{langx|ar|سالم الكرنكوي|Sālim al-Karankawi}};{{Cite book |author=Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli |title=Eminent Personalities |date=2002 |publisher=Dār al-ʻIlm li-l-Malāyīn |edition=15 |publication-place=Beirut |volume=5 |page=144}} 12 August 1872 – 7 June 1952) was a German orientalist.{{cite book|last=Mustafid|first=Abdurrahman Badawi |title=Ensiklopedi tokoh orientalis|year=2003|publisher=Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial (LKIS)|location=Yogyakarta|isbn=9799492939|page=339|edition=Cet. 1.}} He was the uncle of D. H. Lawrence.

Krenkow was born in Germany and moved to England aged 12. He earned a living with a hosiery firm in Leicester, and later acquired a reputation as an Arabic scholar.{{cite book |title=The letters of D. H. Lawrence |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0521013054 |editor=Boulton |editor-first=James T. |editor-link=James Boulton |location=Cambridge (GB) |page=267 |editor2=Andrew Robertson |display-editors=et al}} By 1920, he had married D. H. Lawrence's maternal aunt, Ada, and they settled in Quorn, Leicestershire.{{cite web |last1=Templeman |first1=Sue |title=Quorndon Electoral Roll 1920 |url=https://www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=1751 |website=The Quorn Village On-line Museum |access-date=2 September 2024 |page=11 |language=English |format=PDF |date=2013-01-23 }} He later became a professor at the Aligarh Muslim University during 1929-30, and then at University of Bonn 1931-35.{{cite book|last=Meyers|first=Jeffrey|title=D.H. Lawrence A Biography.|year=2002|publisher=Cooper Square Press|location=Lanham|isbn=9781461702467|page=15}}