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Wilhelm Volck

فيلهلم فولك

Notable figure 1835–1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 717; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 810 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record: Volck, Wilhelm (1835-1904)

From Germany; worked in Estonia

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Malik's Lamiyyat al-afʿal (1864, 1866)

Biography

He taught theology at Dorpat (Tartu), where he became full professor in 1878, and later at Greifswald and Rostock. He edited Ibn Malik's verse manual of Arabic verb morphology, the Lamiyyat al-afʿal, with the commentary of his son Badr al-Din, first with Kellgren's translation (St Petersburg, 1864) and then as a revised text (Leipzig, 1866).