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Gerlof van Vloten
Image: Witsen, Willem (1860-1923), CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Gerlof van Vloten

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Notable figure 1866–1903 · 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. 160, 168 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 143548840): Vloten, Gerlof van, 1866–1903

Field: Literature and text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Jahiz's al-Bukhalaʾ (Leiden 1900)

Biography

A Dutch scholar who taught at Leiden and died young, he edited al-Jahiz's al-Mahasin wa-l-addad (Leiden 1898) and al-Bukhalaʾ (Leiden 1900), and al-Khwarizmi's Mafatih al-ʿulum (Leiden 1895).