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Christian Martin Frähn
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Christian Martin Frähn

كريستيان مارتين فرين

Notable figure 1782–1851 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 933; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 781 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Frähn, Christian Martin (1782-1851)

From Germany; worked in Russia

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Kazan professor of Arabic; edited the two Lamiyyas (1814)

Biography

Born in Rostock and educated at its university, he was called to Russia to teach Arabic at the University of Kazan (1807–1817). In 1818 he moved to St Petersburg, where he directed the Asiatic Museum and built up its Arabic collection. He published al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab and al-Tughrai's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam (Kazan, 1814).