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Albert Dietrich

ألبرت ديتريش

Notable figure 1912–2015 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 797; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 556 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Dietrich, Albert (1912-2015), Arabist and papyrologist

Field: Arabic papyrology

Affiliation

Arabic papyrologist; professor of Arabic at Göttingen

Biography

Born in Hamburg, he studied there and at Tübingen under Enno Littmann, Rudolf Strothmann and Arthur Schaade and took his doctorate in 1937; he was professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at Göttingen (1959–1981). He published Arabic papyri, studied the Arabic papyri of the Topkapı Saray Museum in Istanbul (1957) and the Arabic transmission of Dioscorides' materia medica.