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Anton Spitaler

أنطون شبيتالر

Notable figure 1910–2003 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), pp. 41, 660–662 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 118616269): Spitaler, Anton (1910–2003), with the NDB article by Stefan Wild

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; co-editor of the WKAS

Biography

Born in Munich, he held the chair of Semitic studies at its university from 1948. With Jörg Kraemer and Helmut Gätje he edited the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache, whose first fascicle appeared in 1957 and whose first volume, the letter kāf, was completed in 1970. He wrote critical notes on Johann Fück's ʿArabiya, discussing the origin of Classical Arabic and its relation to Bedouin speech; they are printed with the book's Arabic translation.