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Max Weisweiler

ماكس فايسفايلر

Notable figure 1902–1968 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 794; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 775 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Weisweiler, Max (1902-1968)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Samʿani's Adab al-imlaʾ wa-l-istimlaʾ (1952)

Biography

Born in Cologne, he was a librarian and university professor. He compiled the second part of the catalogue of Arabic manuscripts at Tübingen (1930), wrote on Arabic poetry and Arabic literature, edited ʿAbd al-Karim al-Samʿani's Adab al-imlaʾ wa-l-istimlaʾ with a German translation (Leiden, 1952), and translated Arabic folk tales into German.