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Carl Paul Caspari
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Carl Paul Caspari

كارل باول كسباري

Notable figure 1814–1892 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 709; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 850 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Caspari, Carl Paul (1814-1892)

From Germany; worked in Norway

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of Grammatica Arabica (1844–1848)

Biography

Born in Dessau, he learned Arabic at Leipzig under Fleischer and published there al-Zarnuji's Taʿlim al-mutaʿallim with a preface by his teacher (1838). He then wrote a Latin Grammatica Arabica in two parts (Leipzig, 1844–1848), which was reissued several times in German, translated into English and French, and long remained the standard grammar. In 1847 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Christiania (Oslo), where he later became professor of theology.