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Eduard Sachau

إدوارد زاخاو

Notable figure 1845–1930 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 740; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 649 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Sachau, Eduard (1845-1930)

From Germany; worked in Austria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Jawaliqi's al-Muʿarrab (1867) and al-Biruni

Biography

Born in Neumünster, he studied under Dillmann at Kiel and Fleischer at Leipzig, and took his doctorate with an edition of al-Jawaliqi's al-Muʿarrab, on loanwords in Arabic (Leipzig, 1867). He taught at Vienna (1869–1876) and then Berlin, where he directed the Seminar for Oriental Languages from 1887. He edited al-Biruni's Chronology (1878) and India (1887) with translations, collected Arabic folk songs from Mesopotamia (1889), and led the edition of Ibn Saʿd's Tabaqat (Leiden, 1904–1940).