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Hans Wehr
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Hans Wehr

هانز فير

Notable figure 1909–1981 · 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. 41, 61, 66–67 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, index entry: Wehr, Hans Bodo Gerhardt, 1909–1981, born Leipzig

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of a modern Arabic dictionary (1952)

Biography

Born in Leipzig, he taught at Münster. He compiled the Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (Leipzig 1952, supplement 1959); its English version, edited by J. Milton Cowan (1961), became the most widely used bilingual dictionary of modern written Arabic.