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Gottfried Hoberg

غوتفريد هوبرغ

Notable figure 1857–1924 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1082 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hoberg, Gottfried (1857-1924)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Jinni's al-Tasrif al-muluki (1885)

Biography

He edited Ibn Jinni's al-Tasrif al-muluki, a short treatise on Arabic morphology, with a Latin translation and notes drawing on the commentary of Muhammad Nu'man al-Hamawi (1885), one of the early European editions of an Arabic morphology text. Murad also credits him with an edition of Ibn Jinni's al-Muqtadab (Leipzig, 1904).