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Adolf Wahrmund

أدولف وارموند

Notable figure 1827–1913 · 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. 40 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 117114758): Wahrmund, Adolf, born 10 June 1827, died 15 May 1913, German-Austrian scholar of oriental languages

From Germany; worked in Austria

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-German dictionary

Biography

Born in Wiesbaden, he worked in Vienna teaching Arabic at the Oriental Academy. He compiled the two-volume Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (Giessen 1870–1877, second edition 1887).