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Ferdinand Wüstenfeld
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Ferdinand Wüstenfeld

فرديناند فيستنفلد

Notable figure 1808–1899 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 713; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 816 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand (1808-1899), born Münden, died Hanover

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Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Hisham's Sira and Yaqut's Muʿjam al-buldan

Biography

Born in Münden near Hanover, he studied oriental languages at Berlin and Göttingen and taught Arabic at Göttingen for some sixty years. He edited Ibn Khallikan's Wafayat al-aʿyan (1835–1850), Ibn Durayd's Kitab al-ishtiqaq (1853–1854), Ibn Hisham's Sira (1858–1860) and Yaqut's Muʿjam al-buldan in six volumes (1866–1873), copying the manuscripts in his own hand.