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Hartwig Hirschfeld

هارتفيغ هيرشفلد

Notable figure 1854–1934 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 749; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1097 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hirschfeld, Hartwig (1854-1934)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Diwan of Hassan ibn Thabit (London, 1910)

Biography

Born in Prussia, he settled in London, where he taught Semitic languages. He edited the Diwan of Hassan ibn Thabit from the manuscripts of London, Berlin, Paris and St Petersburg (E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series, London, 1910), and wrote on the poetry ascribed to al-Samawʾal (1906–1907), on Abu Nuwas (1917), al-Jahiz (1922) and Arabic proverbs (1923).