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August Haffner
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August Haffner

أوجست هفنر

Notable figure 1869–1941 · 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. 156–170 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116370157): Haffner, August, born 16 May 1869, died 1 June 1941, Semitist

From Germany; worked in Austria

Field: Editing lexical texts

Affiliation

Editor of early Arabic lexical treatises (1903–1912)

Biography

Born in Witten, he taught Semitic languages at Innsbruck. He edited early lexical works: al-Asmaʿi's Kitab al-Khayl (Vienna 1895), al-Kanz al-lughawi (Beirut 1903) with Ibn al-Sikkit's al-Qalb wa-l-ibdal and al-Asmaʿi's al-Ibil and Khalq al-insan, and Thalathat kutub fi l-addad (Beirut 1912).