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Heinrich Thorbecke
Image: Ed. Schultze, Heidelberg (studio at Plöckstrasse 79), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Heinrich Thorbecke

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Notable figure 1837–1890 · 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. 94, 160 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 38, 1894, pp. 115–117): Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich, 1837–1890, born Meiningen

Field: Editing language texts

Affiliation

Editor of al-Hariri's Durrat al-ghawwas (Leipzig 1871)

Biography

Born in Meiningen, he taught at Heidelberg and Halle. He edited al-Hariri's Durrat al-ghawwas (Leipzig 1871), Ibn Durayd's al-Malahin (Heidelberg 1882) and part of the Mufaddaliyyat (Leipzig 1885). He also edited Mikhaʾil Sabbagh's grammar of the spoken Arabic of Syria and Egypt (Strasbourg 1886), shared in the Leiden edition of al-Tabari, and gathered some 100,000 slips for an Arabic dictionary that never appeared; his widow gave them to the German Oriental Society.