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Richard James Horatio Gottheil
Image: Unknown author (photograph, 1901), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Richard James Horatio Gottheil

رتشارد جوتهيل

Notable figure 1862–1936 · 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. 169 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gottheil, Richard James Horatio (1862-1936)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Abu Zayd al-Ansari's Kitab al-Matar (1895)

Biography

Professor of Semitic languages at Columbia University in New York. The thesis's table of published lexical texts credits him with Abu Zayd al-Ansari's Kitab al-Matar, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (vol. 16, 1895); Louis Cheikho later published it in al-Mashriq and in Beirut in 1905.