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Siegmund Fraenkel

زيغموند فرانكيل

Notable figure 1855–1909 · 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. 41 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116691832): Fraenkel, Siegmund, born 7 April 1855 in Frankfurt (Oder), died 11 June 1909

Field: Philology and loanwords

Affiliation

Philologist; author of a study of Aramaic loanwords (1886)

Biography

Born in Frankfurt an der Oder, he taught Semitic languages at Breslau. He wrote on borrowed words in De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis (Leiden 1880) and Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (Leiden 1886).