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Hans Stumme

هانس شتومه

Notable figure 1864–1936 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 750; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 733 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Stumme, Hans (1864-1936)

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist; grammar of Tunisian Arabic (1896)

Biography

Born in Mittweida, he learned Arabic from Albert Socin and became professor at the University of Leipzig until he retired (1930). He collected tales and poems from Tunis, wrote a Grammatik des tunisischen Arabisch with a glossary (Leipzig 1896), studied the dialects of the Maghrib and Berber, and published the Diwan aus Centralarabien gathered by his teacher Socin.