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Hartmut Bobzin

هارتموت بوبتسين

Notable figure b. 1946 · 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. 67 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Bobzin, Hartmut (1946-)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Compiler of lists of the commonest verbs in modern Arabic

Biography

Born in Bremen, he studied Semitics and Arabic at Marburg and became professor of Islamic studies and Semitic philology at Erlangen–Nuremberg, retiring in 2013. Within studies of comparative Arabic–German grammar he prepared two lists of the commonest verbs in modern written Arabic, ordered by frequency and set against earlier counts to show how the language had changed; they were translated into Arabic and published by Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University as al-Afʿal al-shaʾiʿa fi al-ʿarabiyya al-muʿasira. He has also published a German translation of the Qurʾan (2010) and studies of the history of Arabic scholarship in Europe.