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Lothar Kopf

لوثر كوبف

Notable figure 1917–1964 · 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. 609 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Kopf, Lothar (1917-1964)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Scholar of Arabic lexicography and its Hebrew uses

Biography

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his doctoral thesis (1953) dealt with Arabic lexicography, its origin, development, sources and problems, including a chapter on how the native lexicons define words. He wrote on the Arabic lexicon as an aid to Hebrew lexicography (1956) and on foreign words in medieval Arabic lexicology (1961). The thesis discusses his view that some of the lexicographers' glosses are conjectural rather than heard from speakers, and Werner Diem's reply to it. His papers were collected after his death as Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Lexicography (Jerusalem, 1976).