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August Fischer

أوجست فيشر

Notable figure 1865–1949 · 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. 30, 41, and the study of his dictionary in vol. 2 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie 5, 1961, p. 180): Fischer, August, 1865–1949, born Halle/Saale

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the historical dictionary of Arabic

Biography

Born in Halle, he was professor of Arabic at Leipzig and a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo. He spent his life on a historical dictionary of Arabic, whose first part the Academy published after his death (Cairo 1967), and compiled with Erich Bräunlich the Schawāhid-Indices (Leipzig 1934–1945).

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