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Arthur Schaade

أرتور شاده

Notable figure 1883–1952 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 775; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 719 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Schaade, Arthur (1883-1952)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Field: Phonetics

Affiliation

Phonetician; author of Sibawaihi's Lautlehre (1911)

Biography

Born in Thorn, he studied Semitic languages under August Fischer in Leipzig. He taught at the Egyptian University and directed the Egyptian National Library (Dar al-Kutub) in Cairo, then became professor at Hamburg. He wrote Sibawaihi's Lautlehre on Sibawayh's phonetics (Leiden 1911), edited the commentaries of al-Suhayli and Abu Dharr al-Khushani on the poems of the battle of Badr in Ibn Hisham's Sira (Leipzig 1920), and prepared the first volume of Abu Nuwas's diwan, which Ewald Wagner completed and published (1958).