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Erich Bräunlich
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Erich Bräunlich

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Notable figure 1892–1945 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 762; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 249 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bräunlich, Erich (1892-1945)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; al-Khalil and the Kitab al-ʿAyn (1926)

Biography

He studied Oriental languages at Leipzig under August Fischer and succeeded him in his chair and as editor of the journal Islamica. There he wrote on al-Khalil and the Kitab al-ʿAyn, the first Arabic dictionary (1926), on Sibawayh and Arabic, on al-Nabigha al-Jaʿdi and on pre-Islamic poetry; in Der Islam he wrote on al-Aʿsha and Abu Dhuʾayb, and on Arabic and the Bedouin (1934).