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Ludwig Abel

لودفيغ أبيل

Notable figure 1863–1900 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 632; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 139 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Abel, Ludwig (1863-1900)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Seven Muʿallaqat and Abu Mihjan's poems

Biography

He took his doctorate in Semitic languages under Wilhelm Hoell and Eduard Sachau and became a professor at Erlangen. He edited the poems of Abu Mihjan al-Thaqafi (Leiden, 1887) and then the Seven Muʿallaqat, with a complete glossary and a German and Arabic commentary (Berlin, 1891), a book students used to learn pre-Islamic poetry. He also compiled word indexes to early Arabic poetry.