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Georg Jacob

غيورغ ياكوب

Notable figure 1862–1937 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 752; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1124 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Jacob, Georg (1862-1937)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of pre-Islamic poetry; Altarabisches Beduinenleben

Biography

Born in Königsberg, he studied at Leipzig, Strasbourg, Breslau, Erlangen and Berlin, took his doctorate at Leipzig (1887), and taught at Halle (1896), Erlangen (1901) and Kiel (1911). His habilitation was on the plant names in pre-Islamic poetry (1892); he then published studies of the Arab poets, the Muʿallaqat and Bedouin life, gathered as Altarabisches Beduinenleben (Berlin, 1897), studied al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab and rendered it in German (1915, 1923), and edited Ibn Daniyal's shadow play Tayf al-khayal.