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Karl Dyroff
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Karl Dyroff

كارل ديروف

Notable figure 1862–1938 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 755; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 561 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie / GND: Dyroff, Karl (1862-1938), Egyptologist

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Author of a study of the transmission of Zuhayr's Diwan

Biography

He studied at Munich with Arabic as his main subject, then turned to Egyptology, which he taught at the university there. His doctoral thesis was on the history of the transmission of the Diwan of Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma (Munich, 1892), with an appendix of poems of Zuhayr not published before. It belongs to the recension of the six pre-Islamic poets that al-Aʿlam al-Shantamari transmitted with his commentary.