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Gotthelf Bergsträsser
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Gotthelf Bergsträsser

جوتهلف برجستراسر

Notable figure 1886–1933 · 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, part 1, ch. 2 (his editing method) · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (Neue Deutsche Biographie 2, 1955, pp. 92–93): Bergsträßer, Gotthelf, 1886–1933, born Oberlosa near Plauen

Field: Grammar and philology

Affiliation

Philologist; author of a historical grammar of Arabic (1929)

Biography

Born in Oberlosa near Plauen, he taught at Breslau and Munich. At the Egyptian University in Cairo he gave the lectures published as al-Tatawwur al-nahwi li-l-lugha al-ʿarabiyya (Cairo 1929) and the lectures on editing texts, Usul naqd al-nusus wa-nashr al-kutub (1931–1932, printed 1969), and he wrote Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen (Munich 1928).

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