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Ludolf Krehl

لودولف كريل

Notable figure 1825–1901 · 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. 185، 344; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 890 · Second source: Rudolf Sellheim, «Krehl, Ludolf», Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1980), pp. 732–733

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Co-editor of al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib (1855–1861)

Biography

Born in Meissen, he studied at Leipzig under Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. He worked in the Dresden library, then became librarian and professor of Oriental philology at Leipzig. With William Wright and Gustave Dugat, on Reinhart Dozy's plan, he edited al-Maqqari's Nafh al-tib (Leiden 1855–1861), and he published three volumes of al-Bukhari's Sahih (1862–1868).