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Michael Jan de Goeje
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Michael Jan de Goeje

ميخائيل يان دي خويه

Notable figure 1836–1909 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 122, 167 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Goeje, Michael Johan de (1836-1909)

Field: Text editing and grammar

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Qutayba's al-Shiʿr wa-l-shuʿaraʾ (1904)

Biography

Born in Dronrijp in Friesland, he held the chair of Arabic at Leiden. He edited Ibn Qutayba's al-Shiʿr wa-l-shuʿaraʾ (Leiden 1904) and, with William Robertson Smith, revised the third edition of William Wright's Grammar of the Arabic Language (Cambridge 1896–1898).