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Hermann Zotenberg
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Hermann Zotenberg

هرمان زوتنبرغ

Notable figure 1834–1909 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 216; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 654 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Zotenberg, Hermann (1834-1909)

From Germany; worked in France

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Arabic text of Aladdin (1888)

Biography

He worked in the Oriental manuscripts department of the national library in Paris (1862–1895) and completed the catalogue of its Arabic manuscripts begun by de Slane (1883–1895). He found an Arabic text of the tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp, until then known only in Galland's French, and published it with a translation (1888); he also edited and translated al-Thaʿalibi's Ghurar akhbar muluk al-Furs (1900).