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Enno Littmann
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Enno Littmann

إنّو ليتمان

Notable figure 1875–1958 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 784; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 966 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Littmann, Enno (1875-1958), born 16 Sept. 1875, died 4 May 1958; professor at Tübingen

From Germany; worked in Egypt and the United States

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights; dialectologist

Biography

He taught oriental languages at Tübingen and other German universities and at the Egyptian University when it opened, and as a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo sent it papers on Arabic and its dialects. He wrote on the Arabic of Damascus (1902) and of Hama (1924), collected modern Arabic tales from Palestine with their texts (Leiden 1905), and translated the Thousand and One Nights into German in six volumes (Leipzig 1921–1928).