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Bruno Meissner
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Bruno Meissner

برونو مايسنر

Notable figure 1868–1947 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 769; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1029 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Meissner, Bruno (1868-1947)

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Collector of Neuarabische Geschichten aus dem Iraq (1903)

Biography

Born in Graudenz, he specialised in Assyriology and took part in the German expedition to Babylon (1899–1900). From 1901 he taught Arabic at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin, and later held chairs of Oriental languages at Breslau and Berlin (1921). During the excavations in Iraq he collected proverbs, riddles, poems and tales in the local colloquial; published as Neuarabische Geschichten aus dem Iraq (Leipzig, 1903), they were the first record of southern Iraqi Arabic. He also shared in the Leiden edition of Ibn Saʿd's Tabaqat.