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Helmut Gätje

هلموت جيتيه

Notable figure 1927–1986 · 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. 505 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Gätje, Helmut (1927-1986)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; co-editor of the WKAS dictionary

Biography

A pupil of Jörg Kraemer, he worked with Kraemer and Anton Spitaler on the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache, built on the slips of Fischer, Nöldeke and Reckendorf; its first fascicle appeared in 1957, and the first volume, the letter kāf, was completed only in 1970. The dictionary went beyond the third Islamic century, adding the vocabulary of medicine, philosophy, theology and the crafts, and gave many citations to separate the senses of a word and trace their development. He taught at Saarland University and edited the second volume of the Grundriß der arabischen Philologie (1987).