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Fritz Krenkow

فريتس كرنكو

Notable figure 1872–1953 · 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. 32, 160, 164–168 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116521899): Krenkow, Fritz, 1872–1953, born Schönberg (Mecklenburg)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom and India

Field: Editing dictionaries

Affiliation

Co-editor of Ibn Durayd's Jamharat al-lugha

Biography

Born in Schönberg in Mecklenburg, he settled in England. He was a member of the Daʾirat al-Maʿarif al-ʿUthmaniyya in Hyderabad, India, and taught at Aligarh Muslim University (1929–1930). He helped edit Ibn Durayd's Jamharat al-lugha (Hyderabad 1925–1932), edited Abu l-ʿAmaythal's Ma ittafaqa lafzuhu wa-khtalafa maʿnahu (London 1925) and helped edit the Amali of al-Yazidi (Hyderabad 1938).