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Bernhard Vandenhoff

برنهارد فاندنهوف

Notable figure 1868–1929 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 743; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 770 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Vandenhoff, Bernhard (1868-1929)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Tarafa's poems with a Latin translation (1895)

Biography

He took his doctorate in Berlin (1895) with an edition of poems of Tarafa ibn al-ʿAbd, with a Latin translation and notes, and published an Arabic chrestomathy the same year. He lectured on Semitic philology from 1910 and became a professor at Münster in 1921, after which most of his work was on the literatures of the Christian East.