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Joseph Maximilian Emil Gottwaldt

يوزف ماكسيميليان غوتفالت

Notable figure 1813–1897 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 939; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 429 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Gottwaldt, Josephus M. E. (1813-1897)

From Germany; worked in Russia

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Arabic professor at Kazan; Muʿallaqat with a glossary

Biography

Born in Ratibor in Silesia, he studied under Habicht at Breslau (1832–1836), then went to Russia and catalogued the Oriental manuscripts of the St Petersburg library (1841). Appointed professor of Arabic at Kazan (1849) and librarian of its university, he edited Hamza al-Isfahani's Taʾrikh sini muluk al-ard wa-l-anbiyaʾ with a Latin translation (Leipzig, 1844–1848) and described the Arabic manuscripts at Kazan. He also brought out the seven Muʿallaqat and poems of Imruʾ al-Qays with a large Russian glossary illustrated from the Qurʾan and pre-Islamic poetry (Kazan, 1861–1863).