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Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten
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Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten

يوهان جوتفريد كوزجارتن

Notable figure 1792–1860 · 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. 209, 309 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116342463): Kosegarten, Johann Gottfried Ludwig, born 10 Sep. 1792 in Altenkirchen, died 18 Aug. 1860

Field: Literature and text editing

Affiliation

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

Biography

Born in Altenkirchen on Rügen, he studied under de Sacy and taught at Jena and Greifswald. He compiled a Chrestomathia arabica (Leipzig 1828), edited the first part of Abu l-Faraj's Kitab al-Aghani (Greifswald 1840) and the poems of the Hudhalis (London 1854).