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Ernst Trumpp
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Ernst Trumpp

إرنست ترومب

Notable figure 1828–1885 · 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. ١٧١ · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (ADB 38, 1894, pp. 687–689, by Fritz Hommel): Trumpp, Ernst (1828–1885), GND 119408805

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Ajurrumiyya: Arabic text, German version, notes (1876)

Biography

Born at Ilsfeld in Württemberg, he worked as a missionary in Karachi and Peshawar, then held the chair of Semitic languages at Munich from 1874. At Munich in 1876 he published Einleitung in das Studium der arabischen Grammatiker: Die Ajrumiyyah, with the Arabic text of the Ajurrumiyya, a German translation and a commentary. He published studies on the Arab grammarians in the Academy's proceedings, towards a larger work he did not finish.