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Johann Elichmann

يوهان إليخمان

Notable figure c. 1600–1639 · 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. ٩٤ · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (NDB 4, 1959, p. 440, by Johann Fück himself): Elichman, Johann (c. 1600–1639), GND 122890183

From Germany; worked in the Netherlands

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited the Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Golden Verses (1640)

Biography

A Silesian physician settled in Leiden, he taught himself Arabic in 1629 and wrote a letter in it on its use to students of medicine (1631), which Zechendorf published at Jena. From a Leiden manuscript he established the Arabic text of the Tabula Cebetis and of the Golden Verses ascribed to Pythagoras, and translated both into Latin. They appeared at Leiden in 1640, after his death, seen through by Salmasius.