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Julius Theodor Zenker

يوليوس تيودور تسنكير

Notable figure 1811–1884 · 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 116979860): Zenker, Julius Theodor, 1811–1884

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of a Turkish-Arabic-Persian dictionary

Biography

Born in Ehrenfriedersdorf in Saxony, he worked in Leipzig. He compiled the two-volume Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch (Leipzig 1862–1876), covering the Arabic vocabulary that passed into Turkish and Persian.