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Franz Rosenthal

فرانتس روزنتال

Notable figure 1914–2003 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1016; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 608 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Rosenthal, Franz (1914-2003)

From Germany; worked in the United States

Field: Philology and Semitics

Affiliation

Yale Semitist; translator of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah

Biography

Born in Berlin, he became a professor at Yale. He translated Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah into English (1958), wrote The Technique and Approach of Muslim Scholarship (Rome, 1947), later translated into Arabic, wrote on the place of Arabic among the Semitic languages (1965), and published a study of Aramaic inscriptions (Leiden, 1939).