Voice of Arabic Network
Search
Ernst Bertheau
Image: Bernhard Petri (1837–1887), in Max Voit (ed.), Bildnisse Göttinger Professoren (1937), no. 140, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Ernst Bertheau

إرنست برتو

Notable figure 1812–1888 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 317 (a second entry printed inside the entry for W. Pertsch; al-Aqiqi's row: al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed., vol. 2, p. 715) · Second source: Deutsche Biographie, authority record: Bertheau, Ernst (1812–1888)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited two chapters of Abu ʿUbayd's Proverbs, with Latin

Biography

Born in Hamburg, he studied in Berlin and then Göttingen, where he became professor of Oriental languages. Early in his career he published chapters eight and seventeen of the Book of Proverbs (Kitab al-Amthal) of Abu ʿUbayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam, in Arabic with a Latin translation (1836). His later work was in Hebrew studies.