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Paul Schwarz

باول شفارتس

Notable figure 1867–1938 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 755; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 739 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Schwarz, Paul (1867-1938), professor at the University of Leipzig

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Diwan of ʿUmar ibn Abi Rabiʿa (1901–1909)

Biography

He studied Arabic under Socin at Leipzig, where he later taught, and became expert in Arabic poetry. He edited the diwan of ʿUmar ibn Abi Rabiʿa with a study of his life, language and metres (Leipzig, 1901–1909) and the diwan of Maʿn ibn Aws al-Muzani (1903), and published a poem by Qays ibn Dharih (1922) and one by Kuthayyir ʿAzza from an Escorial manuscript.