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Otto Pretzl

أوتو بريتسل

Notable figure 1893–1941 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 759; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 251 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Pretzl, Otto (1893-1941)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of texts on Qur'anic readings, al-Dani's Taysir

Biography

Born in Ingolstadt, he studied at Munich, travelled widely in Arab lands where he learned their dialects, and became professor of Semitic languages at Munich. After Bergsträsser's death in 1933 he took over the Bavarian Academy's project to collect the sources of the Qur'anic readings and photograph early Qur'an manuscripts, and he edited al-Dani's al-Taysir fi al-qiraʾat al-sabʿ and al-Muqniʿ on the orthography of the regional codices. With Bergsträsser he completed the third part of Nöldeke's Geschichte des Qorans (1926–1938).