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Max Schloessinger

ماكس شلوسنغر

Notable figure 1877–1944 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 763; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 684 · Second source: VIAF, Library of Congress heading: Schloessinger, Max, 1877-1944

From Germany; worked in the United States and Palestine

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Kaysan on the Muʿallaqa of ʿAmr (1901)

Biography

Born in Heidelberg, he studied there and in Vienna and Berlin, taking his doctorate in 1901. He edited Ibn Kaysan's commentary on the Muʿallaqa of ʿAmr ibn Kulthum from a Berlin manuscript (1901), became librarian of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, later moved to Jerusalem, and edited volume four of al-Baladhuri's Ansab al-ashraf (Jerusalem, 1938).