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Fritz Hommel

فريتس هومل

Notable figure 1854–1936 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 751; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1091 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, index entry: Hommel, Fritz (1854-1936)

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Semitist; mammal names among the South Semites (1879)

Biography

Born in Ansbach, he studied the Semitic languages under Fleischer and taught them at the University of Munich. He wrote on the names of mammals among the South Semitic peoples (1879) and on the Semitic peoples and their languages (Leipzig, 1883), wrote on the Jamharat ashʿar al-ʿArab (1885), and compiled a South Arabian chrestomathy with grammar and glossary (Munich, 1893). Most of his later work was on Babylonia and Assyria.