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Julius Wellhausen
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Julius Wellhausen

يوليوس فلهاوزن

Notable figure 1844–1918 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 724; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 797 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Wellhausen, Julius (1844-1918)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor and translator of the Hudhayli poems, part two

Biography

He studied theology, then Oriental languages under Ewald at Göttingen, whom he later succeeded there. He edited the second part of the poems of the Hudhayl tribe from the Leiden and Paris manuscripts, with a German translation, completing what Kosegarten had begun, and wrote a study of Abu Firas al-Hamdani (1896). Most of his later work was on the history of early Islam and the Umayyad state.