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Eduard Vilmar

إدوارد فيلمار

Notable figure 1832–1872 · 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. 168 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Vilmar, Eduard (1832-1872), professor of theology and Oriental languages at Marburg (1865) and Greifswald (from 1867)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Editor of Qutrub's al-Muthallath (Marburg 1857)

Biography

Professor of theology and Oriental languages at Marburg and then Greifswald. The thesis's table of published lexical texts credits him with Qutrub's al-Muthallath (1857), one of the first books on words of triple vowelling to be printed; Ibn Abi Shanab later published it in Algiers in 1907.