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Heinrich Ewald

هاينريش إيفالد

Notable figure 1803–1875 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 703; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 190 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Ewald, Heinrich (1803-1875)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae

Biography

Born in Göttingen, he studied at its university and became professor of oriental languages there and at Tübingen. He wrote De metris carminum Arabicorum on Arabic prosody (Braunschweig 1825) and the two-volume Grammatica critica linguae Arabicae (Leipzig 1831–1833), and edited the conquest of Mesopotamia ascribed to al-Waqidi (Göttingen 1827).