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Hartwig Derenbourg
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Hartwig Derenbourg

هارتفيغ ديرنبورغ

Notable figure 1844–1908 · 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. 2, pp. 593–598 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Derenbourg, Hartwig (1844-1908)

From France; worked in Spain

Field: Text editing and grammar

Affiliation

Editor of Sibawayh's al-Kitab (Paris 1881–1889)

Biography

Born in Paris, he taught Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages. He produced the first edition of Sibawayh's al-Kitab, in two volumes (Paris 1881–1889), and catalogued the Arabic manuscripts of the Escorial (from 1884).