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Georg Wilhelm Freytag

جورج فلهلم فريتاج

Notable figure 1788–1861 · 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. 29, 40 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (ADB 7, 1878, pp. 373–374; NDB 5, 1961, p. 425): Freytag, Georg Wilhelm, 1788–1861, born Lüneburg

Field: Lexicography and prosody

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum

Biography

Born in Lüneburg, he taught oriental languages at Bonn from 1819. He compiled the four-volume Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Halle 1830–1837), edited Abu Tammam's Hamasa with al-Tibrizi's commentary and a Latin translation (Bonn 1828–1847), wrote on Arabic prosody in Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst (Bonn 1830), and published Arabum proverbia from al-Maydani's Majmaʿ al-amthal with a Latin translation (Bonn 1838–1843).

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