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Meïr M. Bravmann

مئير ماكس برافمان

Notable figure 1909–1977 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1013; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 228 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bravmann, Meïr Max (1909-1977)

From Germany; worked in the United States

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Author of Studies in Arabic and General Syntax (1953)

Biography

Born in Eppingen, Germany, he studied the Semitic languages and later taught at Columbia University, New York. He wrote on the phonetic teaching of the Arab grammarians, published Studies in Arabic and General Syntax in Cairo (1953), and wrote on the imperative in Arabic and Hebrew (1951–1952), on modern Arabic dialects (1960) and on the history of Arabic words such as wazir and jizya (1961–1966).