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Wilhelm Pertsch
Image: Verlag von F. A. Perthes, Gotha; Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Berlin (from Pertsch, Drei Vorträge, 1900), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Wilhelm Pertsch

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Notable figure 1832–1899 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 715; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 317 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, authority record: Pertsch, Wilhelm (1832–1899)

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Cataloguer of the Arabic manuscripts at Gotha (1878–1892)

Biography

Born in Coburg, he worked at the ducal library in Gotha from 1856 and became its head librarian in 1879. He described its Arabic manuscripts in a five-volume catalogue (1878–1892), arranged by subject: it opens with encyclopaedias, grammar and prosody, and closes with general indexes of titles, authors, copyists and calligraphers. He also catalogued the Persian (1888) and Turkish (1889) manuscripts of the Berlin library.