Heinrich Thorbecke
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Andreas Heinrich Thorbecke (14 March 1837 in Meiningen – 3 January 1890 in Mannheim) was a German Arabic scholar. His studies were dedicated mainly to the poetry of the Bedouin and the history of Arabic.
Biography
He studied at the universities of Munich and Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1873 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, then relocated to Halle in 1885, where he attained a full professorship in 1887.[1]
Works
- Antarah, ein vorislamitischer Dichter (Life of Antarah, the Pre-Islamite Poet, 1867).
- Al-Harīri's Durrat-al-gawwas (1871); edition of Al-Hariri.
- Al-A'schā's Lobgedicht auf Mahammed (Al Ashâ's Song of Praise to Mohammed, 1875)
- Ibn Duraid's Kitāb al-malāhin (1882); edition of Ibn Duraid.
- Die Mufad-dali-jāt (The Mufaddaaliyyat, 1885).
- Mihail Sabbag's Grammatik der arabischen Umgangssprache in Syrien und Aegypten (M. Sabbâg's Grammar of Conversational Arabic in Syria and Egypt, 1886).
References
- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. This source gives 1887 as the date of his appointment to Halle and doesn't mention Heidelberg. .
- ^ Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich at Neue Deutsche Biographie
External links
- Adalbert Merx (1894), "Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 38, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 115–117
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