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Aloys Sprenger

ألويس شبرنغر

Notable figure 1813–1893 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 724 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Sprenger, Aloys (1813-1893)

From Austria; worked in India, Switzerland and Germany

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Tahanawi's Kashshaf istilahat al-funun

Biography

Born in the Tyrol, he studied at Innsbruck, Vienna and Paris and took a medical doctorate at Leiden (1841). In India he headed the college at Delhi and then the Calcutta Madrasa; he later taught Oriental languages at Bern and spent his last years in Heidelberg. In Calcutta he published ʿAbd al-Razzaq al-Kashani's dictionary of Sufi terms (1845), al-Tahanawi's Kashshaf istilahat al-funun and al-Suyuti's al-Itqan, and took part in editing Ibn Hajar's al-Isaba (1856–1873).