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Otto Jastrow

أوتو ياسترو

Notable figure b. 1942 · 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. 69 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 123694787): Jastrow, Otto, born 1942

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

Philologist; author of studies of Mesopotamian Arabic

Biography

A German scholar of Arabic and Aramaic dialects who taught at Erlangen and Heidelberg. He wrote Die mesopotamisch-arabischen qəltu-Dialekte (Wiesbaden 1978–1981) and edited with Wolfdietrich Fischer the Handbuch der arabischen Dialekte (Wiesbaden 1980).