Germany

Adam Mez Notable figure

1869–1917

Text editing

Editor of Hikayat Abi l-Qasim, with a glossary (1902)

Worked in Switzerland

Annemarie Schimmel Notable figure

1922–2003

Literature and poetry

Translator of modern Arabic poetry into German (1975)

Worked in Türkiye and the United States

Abraham Hinckelmann Notable figure

1652–1695

Text editing

Published the Hamburg Arabic text of the Qur'an (1694)

Adolf Denz Notable figure

b. 1935

Dialects

Verb syntax of the Arabic of Kwayrish, Iraq (1971)

Adolf Friedrich von Schack Notable figure

1815–1894

Literature and poetry

Translator of Andalusi verse; Poesie und Kunst der Araber

Adolf Wahrmund Notable figure

1827–1913

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-German dictionary

Worked in Austria

Arthur Schaade Notable figure

1883–1952

Phonetics

Phonetician; author of Sibawaihi's Lautlehre (1911)

Worked in Egypt

Ernst Harder Notable figure

1854–1927

Lexicography

Lexicographer; German-Arabic dictionary (1903)

Stefan Wild Notable figure

b. 1937

Lexicography

Philologist; author of a study of Kitab al-ʿAyn (1965)

Albert Dietrich Notable figure

1912–2015

Arabic papyrology

Arabic papyrologist; professor of Arabic at Göttingen

Anton Deusing Notable figure

1612–1666

Grammar

Edited the enlarged 2nd edition of Erpenius's grammar (1636)

Worked in the Netherlands

Anton Spitaler Notable figure

1910–2003

Lexicography

Lexicographer; co-editor of the WKAS

Anton Huber Notable figure

d. before 1891

Literature and poetry

Scholar of early poetry; Das Leben des Lebîd (1887)

Angelika Neuwirth Notable figure

b. 1943

Literature and poetry

Literary scholar; Komposition der mekkanischen Suren

Otto Pretzl Notable figure

1893–1941

Text editing

Editor of texts on Qur'anic readings, al-Dani's Taysir

Otto Jastrow Notable figure

b. 1942

Dialects

Philologist; author of studies of Mesopotamian Arabic

Otto Spies Notable figure

1901–1981

Literature and poetry

Scholar of Arabic and folk literature

Worked in India

Otto Loth Notable figure

1844–1881

Literature and poetry

Wrote on Ibn al-Muʿtazz; catalogued India Office Arabic MSS

Worked in the United Kingdom

August Fischer Notable figure

1865–1949

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of the historical dictionary of Arabic

August Müller Notable figure

1848–1892

Text editing

Editor of Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist and of ʿUyun al-anbaʾ

August Haffner Notable figure

1869–1941

Editing lexical texts

Editor of early Arabic lexical treatises (1903–1912)

Worked in Austria

Oskar Rescher Notable figure

1883–1972

Editing language texts

Editor of Ibn Jinni's al-Mudhakkar wa-l-muʾannath (1914)

Worked in Türkiye

Ulrich Marzolph Notable figure

b. 1953

Literature and poetry

Folk narrative; The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (2004)

Oluf Gerhard Tychsen Notable figure

1734–1815

Teaching Arabic

Arabic professor at Rostock; Elementale Arabicum (1792)

Edgar Pröbster Notable figure

1879–1942

Text editing

Editor of Ibn Jinni's Kitab al-Mughtasab (1904)

Eduard Sachau Notable figure

1845–1930

Text editing

Editor of al-Jawaliqi's al-Muʿarrab (1867) and al-Biruni

Worked in Austria

Eduard Vilmar Notable figure

1832–1872

Lexicography

Editor of Qutrub's al-Muthallath (Marburg 1857)

Ernst Bertheau Notable figure

1812–1888

Text editing

Edited two chapters of Abu ʿUbayd's Proverbs, with Latin

Ernst Trumpp Notable figure

1828–1885

Grammar

Ajurrumiyya: Arabic text, German version, notes (1876)

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller Notable figure

1768–1835

Grammar and morphology

Professor of Arabic at Leipzig; Latin Arabic grammar (1818)

Erich Bräunlich Notable figure

1892–1945

Lexicography

Lexicographer; al-Khalil and the Kitab al-ʿAyn (1926)

Ilse Lichtenstadter Notable figure

1907–1991

Literature and poetry

Scholar of early Arabic poetry; editor of Kitab al-Muhabbar

Worked in the United Kingdom and the United States

Emil Rödiger Notable figure

1801–1874

Teaching Arabic

Editor of the Fables of Luqman for teaching Arabic

Emil Gratzl Notable figure

1877–1957

Manuscript cataloguing

Described the Glaser Arabic manuscripts in Munich (1917)

Enno Littmann Notable figure

1875–1958

Phonetics and dialects

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights; dialectologist

Worked in Egypt and the United States

Ewald Wagner Notable figure

b. 1927

Literature and poetry

Editor of the Diwan of Abu Nuwas (vol. 1, 1958)

Paul de Lagarde Notable figure

1827–1891

Semitic philology

Edited Pedro de Alcalá's Arabic grammar and lexicon (1883)

Paul Schwarz Notable figure

1867–1938

Text editing

Editor of the Diwan of ʿUmar ibn Abi Rabiʿa (1901–1909)

Paul Kahle Notable figure

1875–1964

Text editing

Editor of Arabic shadow plays: Der Leuchtturm (1930)

Worked in Egypt and the United Kingdom

Bernhard Vandenhoff Notable figure

1868–1929

Text editing

Editor of Tarafa's poems with a Latin translation (1895)

Bernhard Moritz Notable figure

1859–1939

Arabic script

Author of Arabic Palaeography (Cairo)

Worked in Egypt

Bruno Silberberg Notable figure

b. 1886

Lexicography

Collected the fragments of al-Dinawari's Book of Plants

Bruno Meissner Notable figure

1868–1947

Phonetics and dialects

Collector of Neuarabische Geschichten aus dem Iraq (1903)

Paul Brönnle Notable figure

1867–1938

Editing language texts

Editor of Ibn Wallad's al-Maqsur wa-l-mamdud (1900)

Beatrice Gruendler Notable figure

b. 1964

Literature and poetry

Classical literature; The Development of the Arabic Scripts

Worked in the United States

Peter Behnstedt Notable figure

b. 1944

Dialectology

Dialectologist; Sprachatlas von Syrien (1997)

Peter Kirsten (Petrus Kirstenius) Notable figure

1577–1640

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; an Arabic grammar in three parts

Worked in Sweden

Thomas Bauer Notable figure

b. 1961

Literature and poetry

Arabic poetry; Liebe und Liebesdichtung (1998)

Tilman Seidensticker Notable figure

b. 1955

Lexicography

Arabist; Altarabisch »Herz« und sein Wortfeld (1992)

Theodor Nöldeke Notable figure

1836–1930

Grammar and poetry

Philologist; author of a grammar of classical Arabic (1896)

Götz Schregle Notable figure

b. 1923

Lexicography

Lexicographer; German–Arabic dictionary (1974)

Gotthelf Bergsträsser Notable figure

1886–1933

Grammar and philology

Philologist; author of a historical grammar of Arabic (1929)

Gotthold Weil Notable figure

1882–1960

Grammar

Editor of al-Anbari's al-Insaf fi masaʾil al-khilaf (1913)

Georg Wilhelm Freytag Notable figure

1788–1861

Lexicography and prosody

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum

Joseph Derenbourg Notable figure

1811–1895

Text editing

Revised the 2nd edition of al-Hariri's Maqamat (1847–1851)

Worked in France

Günther Krahl Notable figure

1932–1992

Lexicography

Lexicographer; German-Arabic dictionary (Leipzig 1964)

Chaim Rabin Notable figure

1915–1996

Phonology and dialects

Scholar of early Arabic dialects; Ancient West-Arabian

Worked in the United Kingdom and Palestine

Hermann (Hayyim Zevi) Reckendorf Notable figure

1825–1875

Qur'an translation

First printed Hebrew translation of the Qur'an (1857)

Dominicus Germanus de Silesia Notable figure

1588–1670

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of the Fabrica linguae arabicae (1639)

Worked in Italy

Raimund Köbert Notable figure

1903–1987

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; studies of faʿul and the masdar in Arabic

Worked in Italy

Rotraud Wielandt Notable figure

b. 1944

Lexicography

Arabist; contributor of citations to the WKAS dictionary

Rudolf Ernst Brünnow Notable figure

1858–1917

Language texts and teaching

Editor of Ibn Faris's al-Itbaʿ wa-l-muzawaja (1906)

Worked in the United States

Rudolf Sellheim Notable figure

1928–2013

Proverbs and literature

Philologist; author of a study of Arabic proverb books

Rudi Paret Notable figure

1901–1983

Qur'an translation

German Qur'an translator (1962–66), with a commentary

Renate Jacobi Notable figure

1936–2023

Literature and poetry

Pre-Islamic poetry; Poetik der altarabischen Qaside (1971)

Siegmund Fraenkel Notable figure

1855–1909

Philology and loanwords

Philologist; author of a study of Aramaic loanwords (1886)

Shabo Talay Notable figure

b. 1968

Dialectology

Dialectologist; the Khawētna Arabic dialect (1999–2003)

Shelomo Dov Goitein Notable figure

1900–1985

Text editing

Edited Baladhuri's Ansab V; Yemeni Arabic proverbs

Worked in Palestine and the United States

Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarzlose Notable figure

1830–1900

Lexicography

Author of Die Waffen der alten Araber (1886)

Gregor Schoeler Notable figure

b. 1944

Literature and poetry

Classical literature; editor of Abu Nuwas's Diwan (1982)

Worked in Switzerland and Lebanon

Gottfried Hoberg Notable figure

1857–1924

Text editing

Editor of Ibn Jinni's al-Tasrif al-muluki (1885)

Gustav Weil Notable figure

1808–1889

Literary translation

German translator of the Arabian Nights and al-Zamakhshari

Gustav Flügel Notable figure

1802–1870

Text editing

Author of Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (1862)

Worked in Austria

Gustav Moritz Redslob Notable figure

1804–1882

Text editing

Printed the Qur'an after Flügel's recension (1837)

Gustav Jahn Notable figure

1837–1917

Grammar

Grammarian; edited Ibn Yaʿish, translated Sibawayh

Georg Kampffmeyer Notable figure

1864–1936

Phonetics and dialects

Modern Arabic and Moroccan dialect; Texts from Fez (1909)

Georg Hoffmann Notable figure

1845–1933

Lexicography

Editor of half of Bar ʿAli's Syriac-Arabic lexicon (1874)

Georg Jacob Notable figure

1862–1937

Literature and poetry

Scholar of pre-Islamic poetry; Altarabisches Beduinenleben

Franz Rosenthal Notable figure

1914–2003

Philology and Semitics

Yale Semitist; translator of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah

Worked in the United States

Franz Woepcke Notable figure

1826–1864

Text editing

Edited Omar Khayyam's Algebra and al-Karaji's Fakhri

Ferdinand Wüstenfeld Notable figure

1808–1899

Text editing

Editor of Ibn Hisham's Sira and Yaqut's Muʿjam al-buldan

Werner Diem Notable figure

b. 1944

Lexicography and dialects

Philologist; author of a study of Abu ʿAmr's Kitab al-Jim

Francis Joseph Steingass Notable figure

1825–1903

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-English dictionary (1884)

Worked in the United Kingdom

Fritz Krenkow Notable figure

1872–1953

Editing dictionaries

Co-editor of Ibn Durayd's Jamharat al-lugha

Worked in the United Kingdom and India

Fritz Hommel Notable figure

1854–1936

Semitic philology

Semitist; mammal names among the South Semites (1879)

Friedrich August Arnold Notable figure

1812–1869

Text editing

Editor of the Muʿallaqat (1850) and an Arabic reader

Friedrich Dieterici Notable figure

1821–1903

Grammar and poetry

Editor of Ibn ʿAqil's commentary on the Alfiyya (1851)

Friedrich Rückert Notable figure

1788–1866

Literature and poetry

Poet; German verse of al-Hariri, the Hamasa, Muʿallaqat

Friedrich Schwally Notable figure

1863–1919

Text editing

Editor of al-Bayhaqi's al-Mahasin wa-l-masawi (1902)

Friedrich Kern Notable figure

1874–1921

Teaching Arabic

Teacher of Arabic; scholar of modern Egyptian literature

Worked in Egypt

Wolfdietrich Fischer Notable figure

1928–2013

Grammar

Grammarian; Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch (1972)

Wolfgang Reuschel Notable figure

1924–1991

Grammar and teaching

Grammarian; author of a study of al-Khalil as grammarian

Wolfhart Heinrichs Notable figure

1941–2014

Rhetoric and poetics

Rhetorician; The Hand of the Northwind (1977)

Worked in the United States

Volkhard Windfuhr Notable figure

1937–2020

Literary translation

Lecturer on Arabic literature; translator of Arabic poems

Worked in Egypt and Lebanon

Wiebke Walther Notable figure

1935–2023

Literature and poetry

The Arabian Nights, Arabic prose, translations of Mahfouz

Werner Arnold Notable figure

b. 1953

Dialectology

Dialectologist; Die arabischen Dialekte Antiochiens (1998)

Werner Caskel Notable figure

1896–1970

Text editing

Edited Ibn al-Kalbi's Jamharat al-nasab; early Arabic poetry

Wilhelm Ahlwardt Notable figure

1828–1909

Text editing

Editor of the Divans of Six Ancient Arabic Poets (1870)

Wilhelm Pertsch Notable figure

1832–1899

Manuscript cataloguing

Cataloguer of the Arabic manuscripts at Gotha (1878–1892)

Wilhelm Spitta Notable figure

1853–1883

Phonetics and dialects

Author of the first grammar of Egyptian Arabic (1880)

Worked in Egypt

Wilhelm Volck Notable figure

1835–1904

Grammar and morphology

Editor of Ibn Malik's Lamiyyat al-afʿal (1864, 1866)

Worked in Estonia

Wilhelm Kutsch Notable figure

1895–1966

Text editing

Editor of an Arabic glossary of philosophical terms (1954)

Worked in Lebanon

Wilhelm Hoenerbach Notable figure

1911–1991

Literature and poetry

Scholar of the zajal of Ibn Quzman and Safi al-Din al-Hilli

Worked in the United States

Philipp Wolff Notable figure

1810–1894

Literature and poetry

Editor of al-Babbagha's verse; German Kalila wa-Dimna

Carl Paul Caspari Notable figure

1814–1892

Grammar and morphology

Grammarian; author of Grammatica Arabica (1844–1848)

Worked in Norway

Carl Brockelmann Notable figure

1868–1956

Literature and comparative grammar

Philologist; author of Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur

Karl Dyroff Notable figure

1862–1938

Literature and poetry

Author of a study of the transmission of Zuhayr's Diwan

Karl Vollers Notable figure

1857–1909

Phonetics and dialects

Author of Volkssprache und Schriftsprache (1906)

Worked in Egypt

Karl Lokotsch Notable figure

b. 1889

Lexicography

Etymologist of Oriental loanwords in Europe (1927)

Karl Heinrich Schier Notable figure

d. 1869

Grammar and morphology

Author of a Grammaire arabe (1849); editor of Luqman

Christian Ravius (Raue) Notable figure

1613–1677

Teaching Arabic

Printed the opening suras in Arabic with Latin (1646)

Christian Friedrich Seybold Notable figure

1859–1921

Editing language texts

Editor of al-Anbari's Asrar al-ʿarabiyya (Leiden 1886)

Christian Friedrich von Schnurrer Notable figure

1742–1822

Arabic bibliography

Bibliographer; author of the Bibliotheca Arabica (1811)

Christian Martin Frähn Notable figure

1782–1851

Teaching Arabic

Kazan professor of Arabic; edited the two Lamiyyas (1814)

Worked in Russia

Ludwig Abel Notable figure

1863–1900

Text editing

Editor of the Seven Muʿallaqat and Abu Mihjan's poems

Ludolf Krehl Notable figure

1825–1901

Text editing

Co-editor of al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib (1855–1861)

Meïr M. Bravmann Notable figure

1909–1977

Grammar

Author of Studies in Arabic and General Syntax (1953)

Worked in the United States

Matthias Friedrich Beck Notable figure

1649–1701

Text editing

Printed suras 30 and 48 in Arabic with Latin (1688)

Martin Hartmann Notable figure

1851–1918

Prosody and rhetoric

Prosodist; author of Metrum und Rhythmus (1896)

Worked in Lebanon

Max Schloessinger Notable figure

1877–1944

Text editing

Editor of Ibn Kaysan on the Muʿallaqa of ʿAmr (1901)

Worked in the United States and Palestine

Max Weisweiler Notable figure

1902–1968

Text editing

Editor of al-Samʿani's Adab al-imlaʾ wa-l-istimlaʾ (1952)

Max Meyerhof Notable figure

1874–1945

Text editing

Editor of Maimonides' glossary of drug names (1940)

Worked in Egypt

Max Horten Notable figure

1874–1945

Translation

German versions of al-Farabi's Fusus and Ibn Sina's Shifa

Max Henning Notable figure

1861–1927

Qur'an translation

Translated the Qur'an from Arabic into German (1901)

Manfred Woidich Notable figure

b. 1943

Dialectology

Dialectologist; Das Kairenisch-Arabische (2006)

Worked in the Netherlands

Manfred Ullmann Notable figure

b. 1931

Lexicography and poetry

Lexicographer; an editor of the WKAS dictionary

Manfred Fleischhammer Notable figure

b. 1928

Literature and poetry

Halle professor; Die Quellen des Kitab al-Aghani (2004)

Mechthild Kellermann Notable figure

b. 1935

Lexicography

Contributor to the Tübingen dictionary of Classical Arabic

Maximilian Habicht Notable figure

1775–1839

Text editing and glossaries

Editor of a letter collection with an Arabic glossary (1824)

Hartwig Hirschfeld Notable figure

1854–1934

Text editing

Editor of the Diwan of Hassan ibn Thabit (London, 1910)

Worked in the United Kingdom

Hartmut Bobzin Notable figure

b. 1946

Lexicography

Compiler of lists of the commonest verbs in modern Arabic

Hartmut Fähndrich Notable figure

b. 1944

Translation

Translator of Arabic fiction into German (from 1983)

Worked in Switzerland

Hans Wehr Notable figure

1909–1981

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of a modern Arabic dictionary (1952)

Hans Stumme Notable figure

1864–1936

Dialects

Dialectologist; grammar of Tunisian Arabic (1896)

Hans Ludwig Gottschalk Notable figure

1904–1981

Teaching Arabic

Professor of Arabic at Vienna (1948); manuscript cataloguer

Worked in the United Kingdom and Austria

Heinz Grotzfeld Notable figure

1933–2020

Phonetics and dialects

Linguist; grammars of Damascus and Syrian Arabic

Worked in Sweden

Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus Notable figure

1761–1851

Grammar

Professor at Jena; author of an Arabic grammar (1790)

Heinrich Ewald Notable figure

1803–1875

Grammar

Grammarian; author of Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae

Heinrich Thorbecke Notable figure

1837–1890

Editing language texts

Editor of al-Hariri's Durrat al-ghawwas (Leipzig 1871)

Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer Notable figure

1801–1888

Lexicography and text editing

Philologist; author of corrections to Dozy's Supplément

Hermannus Alemannus Notable figure

d. 1272

Translation

Latin translator of Arabic texts on Rhetoric and Poetics

Worked in Spain

Hermann Reckendorf Notable figure

1863–1924

Syntax

Grammarian; author of Arabische Syntax (1921)

Hermann Zotenberg Notable figure

1834–1909

Text editing

Editor of the Arabic text of Aladdin (1888)

Worked in France

Helmut Gätje Notable figure

1927–1986

Lexicography

Lexicographer; co-editor of the WKAS dictionary

Hellmut Ritter Notable figure

1892–1971

Rhetoric

Editor of al-Jurjani's Asrar al-balagha (Istanbul 1954)

Worked in Türkiye

Hubert Grimme Notable figure

1864–1942

Qur'an translation

Translated selections of the Qur'an in its metre (1923)

Worked in Switzerland

Jacob Barth Notable figure

1851–1914

Semitic philology

Editor of Thaʿlab's Fasih (1876) and al-Qutami (1902)

Jacob Christmann Notable figure

1554–1613

Teaching Arabic

Alphabetum arabicum (1582); Arabic chair, Heidelberg

Johann Jacob Reiske Notable figure

1716–1774

Poetry and text editing

Editor of Tarafa's Muʿallaqa with al-Nahhas (1742)

Jörg Kraemer Notable figure

1917–1961

Lexicography

Lexicographer; founder of the WKAS dictionary

Joseph Aumer Notable figure

1835–1922

Manuscript cataloguing

Cataloguer of the Munich Arabic manuscripts (1866)

Joseph von Sontheimer Notable figure

1787–1846

Translation

Translated Ibn al-Baytar's al-Jamiʿ into German

Joseph Maximilian Emil Gottwaldt Notable figure

1813–1897

Lexicography

Arabic professor at Kazan; Muʿallaqat with a glossary

Worked in Russia

Josef Horovitz Notable figure

1874–1931

Arabic literature and poetry

Editor of al-Kumayt's Hashimiyyat; professor of Arabic

Worked in India

Joseph Hell Notable figure

1875–1950

Text editing

Editor of the diwan of al-Farazdaq and the Hudhali poets

Joseph Schacht Notable figure

1902–1969

Text editing

Editor of al-Khassaf's Kitab al-hiyal (1923)

Worked in Egypt, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States

Julius Euting Notable figure

1839–1913

Epigraphy and script

Epigrapher; Nabatäische Inschriften aus Arabien (1885)

Julius Theodor Zenker Notable figure

1811–1884

Lexicography

Lexicographer; author of a Turkish-Arabic-Persian dictionary

Julius Ruska Notable figure

1867–1949

Text editing

The Arabic Stone Book; al-Razi's Sirr al-asrar in German

Julius Wellhausen Notable figure

1844–1918

Literature and poetry

Editor and translator of the Hudhayli poems, part two

Johann August Vullers Notable figure

1803–1880

Text editing

Editor of the Muʿallaqas of al-Harith and Tarafa

Johann Elichmann Notable figure

c. 1600–1639

Text editing

Edited the Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Golden Verses (1640)

Worked in the Netherlands

Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten Notable figure

1792–1860

Literature and text editing

Editor of the first part of the Kitab al-Aghani (1840)

Johann Georg Nissel Notable figure

1623–1662

Text editing

Leiden printer of Arabic and Ethiopic texts and two suras

Johann David Michaelis Notable figure

1717–1791

Grammar

German Arabic grammar after Erpenius, with reader (1771)

Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Notable figure

1815–1905

Phonetics and dialects

Bedouin dialects of Syria; editor of al-Zamakhshari

Worked in Syria

Johann Gustav Stickel Notable figure

1805–1896

Text editing

Jena professor; editor of the Sayings of ʿAli (1834)

Johann Gildemeister Notable figure

1812–1890

Manuscript cataloguing

Freytag's successor at Bonn; catalogued its Oriental MSS

Johann Fabricius Notable figure

1608–1653

Literature and poetry

Translator from al-Hariri and Ibn al-Farid (1638)

Worked in Poland

Johann Fück Notable figure

1894–1974

Arabic philology

Philologist; author of ʿArabiya (Berlin 1950)

Johannes Roediger Notable figure

1845–1930

Text editing

Co-editor with A. Müller of Ibn al-Nadim's al-Fihrist