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Johann Fabricius

يوهان فابريسيوس

Notable figure 1608–1653 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 820; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 762 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Fabricius, Johann (1608-1653)

From Germany; worked in Poland

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator from al-Hariri and Ibn al-Farid (1638)

Biography

Born in Danzig (Gdańsk), he studied at Rostock, Wittenberg, Königsberg and then Leiden, lectured on Oriental languages at Rostock from 1635, and returned to Danzig in 1643, where he died. He published a specimen of Arabic literature (1638) with translations from the Maqamat of al-Hariri, fourteen verses of Ibn al-Farid and some lines of Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri.