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Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller

إرنست فريدريش كارل روزنمولر

Notable figure 1768–1835 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 695; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 609 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie: Rosenmüller, Ernst Friedrich Karl

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Leipzig; Latin Arabic grammar (1818)

Biography

Born at Hessberg near Hildburghausen, he studied at Leipzig and became professor of Arabic there in 1796 and of Oriental languages in 1813. He wrote a Latin grammar of Arabic, Institutiones ad fundamenta linguae Arabicae (Leipzig, 1818), and edited Arabic texts with Latin translations, among them the chapter on jihad from al-Quduri's Mukhtasar (1825) and a part of al-Idrisi's Nuzhat al-mushtaq (1828).