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Wilhelm Ahlwardt
Image: Wilhelm Wandschneider (bust); photograph 1901, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Wilhelm Ahlwardt

فيلهلم آلفارت

Notable figure 1828–1909 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 720; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 156 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Ahlwardt, Wilhelm (1828-1909)

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Affiliation

Editor of the Divans of Six Ancient Arabic Poets (1870)

Biography

Born in Greifswald, he taught at its university and ran its library. He edited the Diwan of Abu Nuwas from the Berlin and Vienna manuscripts (1861) and The Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets (London, 1870), and gathered the Sammlungen alter arabischer Dichter in three parts, with the Asmaʿiyyat and the diwans of al-ʿAjjaj and Ruʾba (1902–1903). His ten-volume catalogue of the Berlin library describes more than ten thousand Arabic manuscripts (1887–1899).