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Otto Loth

أوتّو لوت

Notable figure 1844–1881 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 705; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 953 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Loth, Otto (1844-1881)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Wrote on Ibn al-Muʿtazz; catalogued India Office Arabic MSS

Biography

He studied Arabic under Fleischer at Leipzig, qualified as a lecturer with a study of Ibn Saʿd (1869), and worked for a time in the British Museum library in London. He wrote on the life and works of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Muʿtazz, compiled the first volume of the catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the India Office Library (London, 1877), and took part in the Leiden edition of al-Tabari.