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Sigmar Hillelson

سيغمار هيلِلسون

Notable figure c. 1883–1960 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 517; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1100 · Second source: Durham University Library, Sudan Archive: catalogue of the papers of Sigmar Hillelson (c. 1883–1960)

From the United Kingdom; worked in Sudan

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Sudan Arabic Vocabulary (1925) and Sudan Arabic Texts (1935)

Biography

He studied at Oxford and learned Arabic under Margoliouth, then went to the Sudan in 1911, where he taught at Gordon College, Khartoum, until 1925 and then served in the Civil Secretary's Department until 1933. He compiled Sudan Arabic: English–Arabic Vocabulary (1925), published Sudan Arabic Texts (Cambridge, 1935), collected Arabic children's songs (1918), and wrote on the Tabaqat of Wad Dayf Allah (1923).