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Christian Friedrich von Schnurrer

كريستيان فريدريش شنورر

Notable figure 1742–1822 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 694; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 739 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie: Schnurrer, Christian Friedrich (1742–1822)

Field: Arabic bibliography

Affiliation

Bibliographer; author of the Bibliotheca Arabica (1811)

Biography

He learned Arabic from Reiske, taught Oriental languages at Tübingen and later became chancellor of the university. His Bibliotheca Arabica (Halle 1811) lists some five hundred books printed in or about Arabic up to 1810, grammars, dictionaries and texts among them; despite its misprints it remained a standard reference, and Chauvin built his great bibliography upon it. He also published the Samaritans' reply to the French consul in Aleppo, in Arabic with a German translation (1808).