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Maximilian Habicht

مكسيميليان هابيخت

Notable figure 1775–1839 · 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, p. 40 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 100217826): Habicht, Christian Maximilian, 1775–1839

Field: Text editing and glossaries

Affiliation

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

Biography

Born in Breslau, he lived in Paris and then taught Arabic at the University of Breslau. He published a collection of Arabic letters with a Latin translation and a glossary of its words (Breslau 1824), and an Arabic text of The Thousand and One Nights (Breslau 1825–1843).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»