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Philipp Wolff

فيليب فولف

Notable figure 1810–1894 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 711; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 808 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Wolff, Philipp (1810-1894)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of al-Babbagha's verse; German Kalila wa-Dimna

Biography

Born in Ulm, he lived in Rottweil in Württemberg, promoted Arabic literature and language in his country, and was an active member of the German Oriental Society. He published selected poems of Abu al-Faraj al-Babbagha and Abu Ishaq (Leipzig, 1834), then the Babbagha manuscripts collected by Schultz (1838), and translated Kalila wa-Dimna into German (Stuttgart, 1836, again 1839).