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Günther Krahl

جونتر كرال

Notable figure 1932–1992 · 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. 42 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Krahl, Günther (1932-1992), Arabist, university teacher

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; German-Arabic dictionary (Leipzig 1964)

Biography

A teacher of Arabic at Leipzig, he compiled a German-Arabic dictionary (1964), reprinted by Librairie du Liban from its second edition (1971), directed its shorter version, and with Gharieb Mohamed Gharieb wrote an Arabic-German dictionary (1984). With Wolfgang Reuschel he wrote a textbook of modern Arabic, which the thesis uses in comparing the vocabulary of teaching books.