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Everard Scheid
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Everard Scheid

إيفرارد شايد

Notable figure 1742–1794 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 723 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Scheidius, Everard (1742-1794)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; edited part of al-Jawhari's Sihah (1774)

Biography

He taught Oriental languages at Harderwijk and then at Leiden. He wrote a work on the elements of Arabic (1767) and studies explaining obscure Hebrew words from their Arabic roots (1769), published the first part of al-Jawhari's Sihah (1774), and translated literary selections, among them the Maqsura of Ibn Durayd.