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Johann August Vullers

يوهان أوغست فولرس

Notable figure 1803–1880 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 704; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 809 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Vullers, Johann August (1803-1880)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Muʿallaqas of al-Harith and Tarafa

Biography

He began Arabic in Germany and spent three years in Paris studying it with Persian under Chézy and Quatremère, took his doctorate at Halle (1830) and taught Oriental languages at the University of Giessen from 1833. He published the Muʿallaqa of al-Harith ibn Hilliza with a Latin translation (Bonn, 1827) and the Muʿallaqa of Tarafa with al-Zawzani's commentary (Bonn, 1829).