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Josef Horovitz

يوزف هوروفيتس

Notable figure 1874–1931 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 743; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1087 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie: Horovitz, Josef (1874-1931), GND 117010014

From Germany; worked in India

Field: Arabic literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of al-Kumayt's Hashimiyyat; professor of Arabic

Biography

He taught Arabic at the college in Aligarh, India (1907–1914), then held the chair of Semitic languages at Frankfurt until his death. He published al-Kumayt ibn Zayd's Hashimiyyat with a German translation and an introduction on Arabic poetry (Leiden 1904), took part in the edition of Ibn Saʿd's Tabaqat, and began indexing the Arabic diwans down to the end of the Umayyad period as groundwork for a dictionary of early poetry.