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Georg Krotkoff

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Notable figure b. 1925 · 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. 41 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 119550431: Krotkoff, Georg (b. 21 May 1925)

From Austria; worked in the United States

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Arabic professor; Arabic–German pocket dictionary (1980)

Biography

Austrian by birth, he taught Arabic and Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He compiled the Langenscheidt pocket dictionary of Arabic and German, whose first, Arabic–German, part appeared in Berlin in 1980. His colleagues and students honoured him with a Festschrift on language and literature in 1997.