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Oluf Gerhard Tychsen
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Oluf Gerhard Tychsen

أولوف غيرهارد تيخسن

Notable figure 1734–1815 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 694; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 365 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Tychsen, Oluf Gerhard (1734-1815)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic professor at Rostock; Elementale Arabicum (1792)

Biography

He taught Oriental languages at Bützow from 1760, becoming professor in 1763, and moved to Rostock in 1789. For students he wrote Elementale Arabicum, a grammar with mostly unpublished texts and a glossary (Rostock, 1792), and he edited al-Maqrizi's treatise on coins (1797) and his al-Bayan wa-l-iʿrab on the Arab tribes of Egypt.