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Friedrich Kern

فريدريش كيرن

Notable figure 1874–1921 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 729; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 928 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 116140097): Kern, Friedrich, born 28 July 1874, died 1921

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic; scholar of modern Egyptian literature

Biography

He studied oriental languages at Lausanne, Jena and Leipzig, then lived in Cairo, where he wrote his dissertation on Muhammad ʿUthman Jalal and his colloquial adaptation of Molière's Les Femmes savantes (Jena 1898). Appointed professor of Arabic in Berlin, he spoke Egyptian colloquial fluently, wrote on humour and satire in Egyptian literature (1906) and edited al-Tabari's Ikhtilaf al-fuqahaʾ with an Arabic introduction (Cairo 1902).