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Adolf Grohmann

أدولف غروهمان

Notable figure 1887–1977 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 788; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 408 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Grohmann, Adolf (1887-1977)

From Austria; worked in Czechia and Egypt

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Arabic papyri in the Egyptian Library

Biography

Born in Graz, he taught Semitic languages and Islamic culture at the universities of Innsbruck and Prague, and was a visiting professor at Cairo University. In 1930 Egypt entrusted him with the Arabic papyri of the Egyptian National Library, which he published with English translation and commentary in volumes from 1934 onwards; some were translated into Arabic.