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Ewald Wagner

إيفالد فاغنر

Notable figure b. 1927 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 809; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 763 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Wagner, Ewald (1927-....)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Editor of the Diwan of Abu Nuwas (vol. 1, 1958)

Biography

He took his doctorate at Hamburg, taught at Mainz, and was professor of Semitic studies at Giessen (1964–1992). He edited the first volume of the Diwan of Abu Nuwas with a German introduction and an Arabic preface (Cairo and Wiesbaden, 1958), and wrote a large study of the poet and the literature of the early Abbasid age (1965).