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Stefan Strelcyn

ستيفان ستريلسن

Notable figure 1918–1981 · 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), p. 43 · Second source: VIAF 64134036: Strelcyn, Stefan (1918-1981)

From Poland; worked in France and the United Kingdom

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Semitist; studied an Arabic–Ethiopic glossary (1968)

Biography

Born in Warsaw, he studied Semitic languages in Paris, taught them at the University of Warsaw, and from 1969 until his death worked at the University of Manchester. In 1968 he published a study of chapters of a sixteenth-century Arabic–Ethiopic glossary, which sets Arabic words beside their Geʿez and Amharic equivalents; he also catalogued the Ethiopic manuscripts in London and Manchester.