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Anton Huber

أنطون هوبر

Notable figure d. before 1891 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 331; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1082 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 117030023: Huber, Anton (Vinzenz) (b. 2 March 1860)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of early poetry; Das Leben des Lebîd (1887)

Biography

Born in Munich in 1860, he studied Arabic at Leipzig, where he wrote his dissertation on al-maysir, the pre-Islamic game of chance (1883). He then qualified as a lecturer there with a study of the life of Labid ibn Rabiʿa that published a number of his poems for the first time (Leiden 1887). He died young, and Brockelmann published from his papers his translation of Labid's Diwan from the Vienna edition, with his notes (Leiden 1891).