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Georg Kampffmeyer
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Georg Kampffmeyer

غيورغ كامبفماير

Notable figure 1864–1936 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 751; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 857 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Kampffmeyer, Georg (1864-1936)

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Modern Arabic and Moroccan dialect; Texts from Fez (1909)

Biography

He studied Eastern languages at Leipzig and specialised in modern Arabic and Moroccan dialect at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin (1907), and taught them at Marburg. He published texts from Fez (1909) and from Fez and Tangier (1913), edited the journal Die Welt des Islams, in which he introduced German readers to modern Arabic literature, and with Zahir al-Khumayri wrote on the leading modern Arabic writers (1930).