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Pieter Johannes Veth

بيتر يوهانس فيت

Notable figure 1814–1895 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 662; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 778 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Veth, Pieter Johannes (1814–1895)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Suyuti's Lubb al-lubab (1840–1851)

Biography

Born in Dordrecht, he studied Arabic at Leiden University and taught it at Franeker and then Amsterdam. He edited al-Suyuti's Lubb al-lubab, a dictionary of nisbas, collating it with al-Samʿani's Ansab and Ibn al-Athir's Lubab (Leiden, 1840–1851), and wrote on the schools of the Arabs (1842) and on the history of the Semitic languages (1861). He later turned to the geography and peoples of the East Indies.