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Theodoor Willem Jan Juynboll
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Theodoor Willem Jan Juynboll

تيودور ويليم يان يونبول

Notable figure 1802–1861 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 670; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 424 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Juynboll, Theodoor Willem Jan (1802-1861)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Mutanabbi's poems on Sayf al-Dawla (1840)

Biography

Born in Rotterdam, he graduated from Leiden and taught Arabic at Franeker (1831), Groningen (1841) and Leiden (1845) until his death. With two colleagues he published the Orientalia (1840–1846), whose first volume holds the poems of al-Mutanabbi and his contemporaries in praise of Sayf al-Dawla, with a Latin translation. He wrote on Arabic orthography, and edited the Marasid al-ittilaʿ (1850–1859) and two volumes of al-Nujum al-zahira.