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Karl Lokotsch

كارل لوكوتش

Notable figure b. 1889 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 743; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 956 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie: Lokotsch, Karl

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Etymologist of Oriental loanwords in Europe (1927)

Biography

Born in Deutz, Cologne, in 1889, he wrote a dissertation on Avicenna as a mathematician (Bonn, 1912). He compiled an etymological dictionary of Germanic, Romance and Slavonic words of Oriental origin (Heidelberg, 1927), in which Arabic supplies the largest share, and wrote on the origin of some Arabic words (1926).