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Theodor Nöldeke
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Theodor Nöldeke

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Notable figure 1836–1930 · 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. 23, 41 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie 19, 1999, pp. 311–312): Nöldeke, Theodor, 1836–1930, born Harburg

Field: Grammar and poetry

Affiliation

Philologist; author of a grammar of classical Arabic (1896)

Biography

Born in Harburg near Hamburg, he was professor of Semitic languages at Strasbourg. He wrote Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Poesie der alten Araber (Hanover 1864), compiled the Delectus veterum carminum arabicorum (Berlin 1890), and wrote Zur Grammatik des classischen Arabisch (Vienna 1896).

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