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Paul Kraus

باول كراوس

Notable figure 1904–1944 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 763; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 882 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Kraus, Paul (1904-1944)

From Czechia; worked in Germany, France and Egypt

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Jahiz's epistles (1943); historian of science

Biography

Born in Prague, he studied there, spent two years in Jerusalem, took his doctorate in Berlin (1929) and taught there, moved to Paris (1933) and was invited to Cairo as professor of Semitic languages at the Egyptian University (1936). Most of his work is on Jabir ibn Hayyan and Abu Bakr al-Razi; on the literary side, with Muhammad Taha al-Hajiri he edited four epistles of al-Jahiz with a full introduction (Cairo, 1943), and he studied Burzoe's preface to Kalila wa-Dimna.