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Pieter de Jong
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Pieter de Jong

بيتر دي يونغ

Notable figure 1832–1890 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 661; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 555 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Jong, Pieter de (1832-1890)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Thaʿalibi's Lataʾif al-maʿarif (1867)

Biography

He took his degree in Arabic at Utrecht, excelled in it and became its professor there. He edited Ibn al-Qaysarani's al-Ansab al-muttafiqa (Leiden, 1865), al-Thaʿalibi's Lataʾif al-maʿarif (Leiden, 1867) and al-Dhahabi's al-Mushtabih fi asmaʾ al-rijal (Leiden, 1881). With de Goeje he catalogued the Oriental manuscripts of Leiden University and edited the third part of Kitab al-ʿUyun wa-l-hadaʾiq (Leiden, 1869).