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Ernst Harder
Image: From Ernst Crous, «Karl und Ernst Harder» (1927), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Ernst Harder

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Notable figure 1854–1927 · 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. 41 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Harder, Ernst (1854-1927), Arabic scholar

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; German-Arabic dictionary (1903)

Biography

A German teacher of modern Arabic, he compiled a German-Arabic dictionary (Heidelberg, 1903) to supply the German words missing from Wahrmund's, basing his Arabic on the modern written language. He also wrote an Arabic conversation grammar, an Arabic chrestomathy and a pocket German-Arabic and Arabic-German dictionary; his grammar was adapted into English and reprinted many times.