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Friedrich Schwally
Image: Unknown photographer (Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter, March 1929), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Friedrich Schwally

فريدريش شفالي

Notable figure 1863–1919 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 727; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 740 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (GND 117342394): Schwally, Friedrich (1863–1919)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Bayhaqi's al-Mahasin wa-l-masawi (1902)

Biography

Born in Butzbach, he studied the Semitic languages under Nöldeke and taught them at Strasbourg and Giessen, ending his career as professor at Königsberg. He edited the adab work al-Mahasin wa-l-masawi attributed to Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Bayhaqi in three parts (Giessen 1902), the edition from which it was later printed in Cairo. He also took part in the edition of Ibn Saʿd's Tabaqat and re-edited, with notes, Nöldeke's Geschichte des Qorans (Leipzig, from 1909).