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Martin Hartmann
Image: Unknown author (frontispiece of Hartmann, Dichter der neuen Türkei, Berlin 1919), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Martin Hartmann

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Notable figure 1851–1918 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 725; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1067 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hartmann, Martin (1851-1918), born Breslau 9 Dec. 1851, died Berlin 5 Dec. 1918; philologist, specialist of Arabic

From Germany; worked in Lebanon

Field: Prosody and rhetoric

Affiliation

Prosodist; author of Metrum und Rhythmus (1896)

Biography

Born in Breslau, he studied under Fleischer at Leipzig, then served as dragoman at the German consulate in Beirut (1876–1887), where he mastered Arabic. He taught at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin and wrote a handbook of the Arabic of the Beirut market (1880), studies of metre, rhythm and the origin of the Arabic metres (1896) and of the muwashshah (1897), and collected folk songs from Syria and the Libyan desert (1899).