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Hendrik Engelinus Weijers
Image: Anonymous Dutch painter, 19th century (Leiden University Library, Icones 238), CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Hendrik Engelinus Weijers

هندريك إنغلينوس فايرس

Notable figure 1805–1844 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 656; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 775 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Weyers, Hendrik Engelinus (1805-1844)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Leiden professor; edited Ibn Khaqan on Ibn Zaydun

Biography

He studied at Leiden under Hamaker and succeeded him in the chair of Oriental languages there. His 1831 dissertation edited, from the Leiden and Gotha manuscripts, the passages of al-Fath ibn Khaqan on the poet Ibn Zaydun, with a Latin translation and notes. With Albertus Meursinge he edited Ibn Habib's Durrat al-aslak and its continuation by his son Tahir (Amsterdam, 1840–1846), and he began a catalogue of the Amsterdam Academy's manuscripts that Pieter de Jong completed.