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Manfred Fleischhammer

مانفريد فلايشهامر

Notable figure b. 1928 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 809; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 796 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record: Fleischhammer, Manfred (born 1928)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Halle professor; Die Quellen des Kitab al-Aghani (2004)

Biography

Born in Halle, he studied Semitics at its university, edited Ibn Hibban al-Busti's Mashahir ʿulamaʾ al-amsar from the unique Leipzig manuscript (1959), qualified as professor with a study of the sources of the Kitab al-Aghani (1965), and taught Arabic at Halle until 1990. He published Die Quellen des Kitab al-Aghani (Wiesbaden, 2004), an anthology of early Arabic prose (Leipzig, 1991) and, with Wiebke Walther, a chrestomathy of modern Arabic prose (1982).