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August Müller
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August Müller

أوجست موللر

Notable figure 1848–1892 · 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. 84 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Müller, August (1848-1892)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist and of ʿUyun al-anbaʾ

Biography

Professor of Oriental languages at Halle and then Königsberg. With Rödiger he completed Flügel's edition of Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist after Flügel's death, adding a supplement of notes and corrections (1871–1872), and he edited Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa's ʿUyun al-anbaʾ, recording the variants of its copies. The thesis also names him among the compilers of Arabic anthologies; he revised Caspari's Arabic grammar.