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Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarzlose

شوار تسلوزه

Notable figure 1830–1900 · 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. 97 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Schwarzlose, Friedrich W. (1830-1900)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Author of Die Waffen der alten Araber (1886)

Biography

He was a senior master at the gymnasium of Insterburg in East Prussia. He gathered the vocabulary of weapons from early Arabic poetry in Die Waffen der alten Araber aus ihren Dichtern dargestellt, with the Arabic title Kitab al-Silah (Leipzig, 1886). The thesis cites it as an example of the 'words and things' method applied to Arabic: starting from the object and collecting its names, which completes the usual method of starting from the word and seeking its meaning.