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Edgar Pröbster

إدغار بروبستر

Notable figure 1879–1942 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 777; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 251 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Pröbster, Edgar (1879-1942)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Jinni's Kitab al-Mughtasab (1904)

Biography

Born in Neustadt an der Orla, he took his doctorate at Leipzig in 1903 with an edition of Ibn Jinni's treatise Kitab al-Mughtasab, prefaced by a study of Ibn Jinni's life and works; the full edition appeared in the Leipziger semitistische Studien in 1904. He later wrote in Islamica on the teaching of Arabic in France and on law and justice in Morocco.