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Gustav Jahn

غوستاف يان

Notable figure 1837–1917 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 724; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1126 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Jahn, Gustav (1837-1917), Semitist

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammarian; edited Ibn Yaʿish, translated Sibawayh

Biography

Born in Dossen in the Neumark, he studied Arabic at German universities under Rödiger, Fleischer and Wüstenfeld, taught in Berlin and became professor of Semitic languages at Königsberg (1890–1903). He edited Ibn Yaʿish's commentary on the Mufassal after collating the Leipzig, Oxford and Istanbul manuscripts (Leipzig, 1882–1886), and translated Sibawayh's Kitab into German with notes and excerpts from al-Sirafi's commentary (Berlin, 1894–1900).