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Anton Deusing
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Anton Deusing

أنطون دويزنغ

Notable figure 1612–1666 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. ٧١–٧٢ · Second source: Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812–1817), vol. 12, p. 24: Deusingius, Anthony

From Germany; worked in the Netherlands

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Edited the enlarged 2nd edition of Erpenius's grammar (1636)

Biography

Born at Moers, he learned Arabic from Golius at Leiden and later became professor of medicine at Groningen. In 1636 he issued the second edition of Erpenius's Grammatica arabica, using the author's own revision on his copy and adding Luqman's fables and Arabic proverbs as reading texts. He also put Avicenna's poem on medicine into Latin (1649).