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Bruno Silberberg

برونو زيلبربرج

Notable figure b. 1886 · 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. 167; Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 734; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 657 · Second source: Bruno Silberberg, Das Pflanzenbuch des Abû Ḥanîfa Aḥmed ibn Dâ'ûd ad-Dînawarî (Inaugural-Dissertation, Breslau; Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1910), Lebenslauf

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Collected the fragments of al-Dinawari's Book of Plants

Biography

Born in Breslau (now Wrocław), he studied Semitic philology at its university under Siegmund Fraenkel. He gathered the surviving plant descriptions of Abu Hanifa al-Dinawari's Kitab al-Nabat from the quotations in the dictionaries and philological works. The study won the Faculty of Philosophy's prize in 1908 and earned him his doctorate in 1910, and it appeared in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie (1910–1911).