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Max Meyerhof
Image: Unknown author (published with Enno Littmann's obituary in ZDMG 99, 1945–1949, p. 11), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Max Meyerhof

ماكس مايرهوف

Notable figure 1874–1945 · 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. 166 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Meyerhof, Max (1874-1945)

From Germany; worked in Egypt

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Maimonides' glossary of drug names (1940)

Biography

A German ophthalmologist who settled in Cairo, he worked on the medical and pharmacological heritage of the Arabs and its terminology. In 1940 he published in Cairo, from its unique manuscript and with a French translation, Maimonides' Sharh asmaʾ al-ʿuqqar, a glossary of drug names and their synonyms. The thesis lists it among European editions of specialised lexical treatises.