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Heinz Grotzfeld

هاينتس غروتسفيلد

Notable figure 1933–2020 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 405 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record: Grotzfeld, Heinz (1933-2020)

From Germany; worked in Sweden

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Linguist; grammars of Damascus and Syrian Arabic

Biography

He studied at Saarbrücken, Erlangen and Münster and took his doctorate with a thesis on the Arabic dialect of Damascus (1961). He worked at Münster and at the Orient-Institut in Beirut, held the chair of Arabic at Stockholm (1968–1975), and returned to Münster as professor and director of its Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (1975). He wrote Laut- und Formenlehre des Damaszenisch-Arabischen with a volume of texts (Wiesbaden, 1964) and Syrisch-arabische Grammatik (1965).