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Manfred Ullmann

مانفريد أولمان

Notable figure b. 1931 · 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. 178, 187, 287 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 133510557): Ullmann, Manfred, born 2 Nov. 1931, German Arabist and classicist

Field: Lexicography and poetry

Affiliation

Lexicographer; an editor of the WKAS dictionary

Biography

A German Arabist and classicist who worked at Tübingen. He edited the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache (WKAS) from the 1970s, and wrote Untersuchungen zur Raǧazpoesie (Wiesbaden 1966) and the Wörterbuch zu den griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des 9. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden 2002–2007).