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Wolfdietrich Fischer

فولفديتريش فيشر

Notable figure 1928–2013 · Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Fischer, Wolfdietrich (1928-2013), professor at the University of Erlangen from 1964 · Second source: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, authority record: Fischer, Wolfdietrich (1928-2013)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammarian; Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch (1972)

Biography

Born in Nuremberg, he studied Semitic languages at Erlangen and Munich, took his doctorate at Erlangen in 1953 under Hans Wehr, and held the chair of Oriental languages there from 1964 to 1995. His Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch (Wiesbaden, 1972), later translated into English, became the standard reference grammar in European universities, and with Otto Jastrow he edited the Handbuch der arabischen Dialekte (Wiesbaden, 1980).