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Friedrich August Arnold

فريدريش أوغست أرنولد

Notable figure 1812–1869 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 700; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 149 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Arnold, Friedrich August (1812-1869)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Muʿallaqat (1850) and an Arabic reader

Biography

Born in Halle, he studied Oriental languages there and in Berlin, then taught at the Halle secondary school and became extraordinary professor of Oriental languages and literature at the university. He edited the Seven Muʿallaqat with commentaries and notes (Leipzig, 1850) and compiled a two-volume Arabic reader for students from manuscripts and rare printed books (Halle, 1853).